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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 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 · 6 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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Just so crazy to me the scale.

Is there any range for how many “a few requests” would be needed to ddos a site like this?

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