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disable-pingback.php
<?php
/**
* Disable pingbacks
*
* Useful to secure your site from *potential* xmprpc DDoS attacks, but it does disable the pingback feature and could conflict with other plugins
*
* http://l.jdn.im/disable-pinkback
**/
add_filter( 'xmlrpc_methods', function( $methods ) {
unset( $methods['pingback.ping'] );
return $methods;
} );
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FYI, the DDoS hack was fixed in WordPress Version 3.6. See also this post

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