The hosting company for my website posted information on a recent 'brute force' cyberattack targeting WordPress. They noted that the overwhelming numbers of these attacks (using botnets -- what I understand are hijacked computers and IP addresses) in attempting to log into WordPress was seriously affecting the performance of many hosting sites throughout the world. Here is the link they provided to the report of the attack:
http://www.siliconrepublic.com/strategy/item/32269-major-brute-force-attack/
If you use WordPress this may be a good time to take the advice offered and change/improve your login password.
Apparently this was an enormous bombardment. I'm wondering whether it may also explain some of the recent "glitchiness" and slow recovery on sites like Paypal. I've noticed that even eBay itself has been very, very slow over the past 2 weeks or so -- could this be related? I thought it was just my own computer, but perhaps not.
Sigh ... so many passwords to remember, so many new threats...:_|
