DDoS attack knocks Wikipedia offline.
Wikipedia was hit
late last week with a sustained DDoS attack knocking it offline in many
parts of the world. Wikipedia’s parent organization Wikimedia posted a
statement on Sept. 7 saying it was under attack
and working to return to normal operations, but posted on Twitter on
Sept. 6 that it was suffering intermittent outages. The affected nations
were UK, France, Germany and Italy. Parts of the United States were
also impacted.
Source: SC Magazine
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