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More on WordPress xmlrpc denial of service attacks

• Albert Zenkoff
• 2014-09-08
• Technology, apache, attack, conditions, denial of service, DOS, protection, rewrite, rewrite_mod, rules, service, user agent, WordPress, xmlrpc

The attacks on WordPress using xmlrpc.php service are rather common. I already mentioned that you could filter out unwanted user-agents using the redirect capability of Apache. That would, however, take care only of obvious cases, where you see that this particular user-agent could not possibly be your reader. What do we do if the user-agent ...

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