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September 7, 2019 02:34 pm
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Parts of Wikipedia Went Offline After 'Malicious' DDoS Attack
An anonymous reader quotes the website of Ireland's national public service broadcasting:Popular online reference website Wikipedia went down in several countries after the website was targeted by what it described as a "malicious attack". The server of the Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts the site, suffered a "massive" Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, the organisation's German account said in a tweet last night. In a separate statement the Wikimedia Foundation said that the attack on the encyclopedia - one of the world's most popular websites - was "ongoing" and teams were working to restore access... Wikimedia condemned the breach of its server, saying it threatened "everyone's fundamental rights to freely access and share information."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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