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"Wordpress has been hit by a large scale cyber attack. The blogging website was struck by a botnet comprising &amp;quot;tens of thousands&amp;quot; of computers just one week after the service amped up its security.  The botnets attempt to steal user data by entering a list of common user names along with thousands of password combinations. &amp;quot;One of the concerns of an attack like this is that the attacker is using a relatively weak botnet of home PCs in order to build a much larger botnet of beefy servers in preparation for a future attack,&amp;quot; said Matthew Prince, co-founder of Wordpress hosting service Cloudflare. &amp;quot;These larger machines can cause much more damage in DDoS [Distributed Denial of Service] attacks because the servers have large network connections and are capable of generating significant amounts of traffic. Wordpress powers around 64 million blogs across the internet, which have a combined readership of around 371 million each month. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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