My server is currently under attack from an unspecified number of other servers which, as I understand it, are all requesting locations that don’t exist, in an attempt to access any vulnerabilities in WordPress which have been rectified in the latest version.

I’m not sure whether to call it a ddos attack or what; but you can expect this site to be knocked offline at any point within the next 12 hours for an indeterminite length of time. It appears that compromised servers are attempting to make my server part of a server-botnet.

Normal service will be resumed ASAP.

I apologise for this latest problem; which is due to halfwits and also circumstances beyond my control: I believe that other sites, including PCMech.com, have possibly also been recently attacked in this way. Such sites have a bigger budget and lots of server power, and therefore are able to withstand such attacks. This site is not so lucky. Nevertheless; engineers will be attending to the issues affecting the server during UK working hours. This situation will be resolved as soon as is possible.

Sharron Field

Owner and creator of kkomp.com