Millions of WordPress and Drupal Websites Vulnerable to DoS Attack

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VULNERABILITY RESULTS IN DoS ATTACK
The latest update of WordPress 3.9.2 mainly addresses an issue in the PHP’s XML processor that could be exploited to trigger a DoS (denial of service) attack. The vulnerability affects all previous versions of WordPress.

http://thehackernews.com/2014/08/millions-of-wordpress-and-drupal.html

 

[N-A]

Dunno why people are so scared of things like this happening. All my WordPress installations on individual users are set to only be able to handle a percentage of the resources at a time, before failing and suspending the account (which I'd get a message of). As an example, if one site spiked in CPU usage for X seconds, it would terminate all processes by the user and suspend the account. Most of which is static content, as it's cached on the hard drive (and some sites in RAM).

3.9.2 was rolled out across all of my sites, but I was still protected. Just takes good security measures in the beginning for stuff like this not to effect you.

People always whining about how insecure WordPress is... They've got a quick reac team of security experts to fix these things immediately.

 

[kesavan]

Always wordpress has issues with securities.

 

[iowadawg]

I am down with my blogs being protected.
Both as a blog and also my host company.
So I worry not about security issues.
Leave that up to those who worry about such things.