{"id":4756,"date":"2013-08-27T12:14:14","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T19:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=4756"},"modified":"2013-08-27T12:14:14","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T19:14:14","slug":"small-scale-botnet-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/27\/small-scale-botnet-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"small scale botnet attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We came under DDOS attack by a mostly-south-Asian botnet today; around 3,000 unique IPs, which is not that large on the scale of things. Probably an advanced hobbyist rather than a professional, given that we could sort it out and get back online as quickly as we did.<\/p>\n<p>Furthest west IP was in Poland; furthest east, China. Southernmost probably Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, if you were trying to reach <a href=\"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/superdeer-valium\/\">this morning&#8217;s blog post<\/a>, that&#8217;s what happened; give it another go. We should be fine now. If you can&#8217;t anything on the website and are reading this via an echo, let me know; I probably blocked you accidentally too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We came under DDOS attack by a mostly-south-Asian botnet today; around 3,000 unique IPs, which is not that large on the scale of things. Probably an advanced hobbyist rather than a professional, given that we could sort it out and get back online as quickly as we did. Furthest west IP was in Poland; furthest [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}