A large-scale and prolonged DDoS attack which caused outages in Europe and internationally for Wikipedia on Friday 6 evening into Saturday 7th September. The Wikimedia Foundation running Wikipedia site condemned the attack saying it wanted to protect the “fundamental right” for people to be able to “freely access and share information”.
News of the Wikipedia downtime was shared on Twitter:
Wikipedia has been experiencing intermittent outages today as a result of a malicious attack. We're continuing to work on restoring access. #wikipediadown
— Wikipedia (@Wikipedia) September 7, 2019
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@Matt Keil, Director of Product Marketing, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"The first and most obvious goal is to amplify the attack by distributing the traffic across a wide range of IP addresses. ..."
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@Matt Keil, Director of Product Marketing, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"The first and most obvious goal is to amplify the attack by distributing the traffic across a wide range of IP addresses. ..."
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@Terry Ray, Senior Vice President and Fellow , provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"The only reason a business gets taken offline due to a DDoS attack these days is because they deemed DDoS attacks as a low priority attack...."
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@Terry Ray, Senior Vice President and Fellow , provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"The only reason a business gets taken offline due to a DDoS attack these days is because they deemed DDoS attacks as a low priority attack...."
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@Jake Moore, Cybersecurity Specialist, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"The most important way to respond to a DDOS is to strengthen security where possible and plug any gaps that may be currently open. ..."
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@Jake Moore, Cybersecurity Specialist, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"The most important way to respond to a DDOS is to strengthen security where possible and plug any gaps that may be currently open. ..."
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@Marc Wilczek, COO, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"Businesses that rely on their web presence need to deploy DDoS protection solutions...."
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@Marc Wilczek, COO, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"Businesses that rely on their web presence need to deploy DDoS protection solutions...."
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