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Internet Archive Under Siege: DDoS Attack Disrupts Services for Days
The Internet Archive and its Wayback Machine were hit by a massive DDoS attack over Memorial Day weekend. The nonprofit faced “tens of thousands of fake information requests per second,” causing major service disruptions. Thankfully, the data remains safe, but the attack has been “sustained,…
Hot Take:
The Wayback Machine? More like The Way-blocked Machine! Move over, nostalgia trips; cyber villains are rewriting history in real-time.
Key Points:
- The Internet Archive, including the Wayback Machine, has been under a DDoS attack for several days.
- Cyber attackers are bombarding the site with tens of thousands of fake information requests per second.
- The data remains safe, but services are intermittently unavailable.
- The Internet Archive is bolstering its defenses to combat the ongoing attacks.
- Libraries and similar institutions are increasingly becoming targets of cyber-attacks.
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