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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 10 months ago

Internet Archive is continuing to face DDoS attacks after several days, says “this attack has been sustained, impactful, targeted, adaptive, and importantly, mean”

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Internet Archive is continuing to face DDoS attacks after several days, says “this attack has been sustained, impactful, targeted, adaptive, and importantly, mean”

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 10 months ago

Internet Archive is continuing to face DDoS attacks after several days

Internet Archive and Wayback Machine have been facing DDoS cyberattacks for the last few days. The non-profit assured that collections are safe despite the service being inconsistent since Sunday.

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The way it breaks utility is in the inability to read from the service. If that goes away for long enough, the Archive will die.
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  It would be crazy expensive to run an attack of this size for years.

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