On Mon, 13 Apr 2015 20:11:57 +0300 Shachar Shemesh <shac...@shemesh.biz> wrote:
> On 13/04/15 19:34, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > > > What I'd really like to do is take such a process that I know is > > hanging on connection to the web site, and find out which request it > > thinks it is serving. > > > I love this mailing list :-) > > No sooner had I sent this message, I knew how to figure out what was > going on. I ran a tcpdump on both incoming and outgoing requests, and > managed to locate record the actual attack. It turns out that there is a > denial of service (phew! No need to reinstall the server) in wordpress > (yes, I've upgraded to the latest version after the last time my server > died). > > I've reported it to the wordpress security team, along with network > dumps. I'm hopeful it will be fixed soon, making us all safer. Following > their recommendation, I'm not disclosing any more details at this point > in time. > > Shachar Gotta love wordpress -- Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted
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