Malicious Under attack on Wikipedia to go offline
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The next generation of mobile networking technology 5G, which is said to be improve the speed and responsiveness of wireless networks when deployed, but it is already raising questions for mobile operators, specifically about the implications of 5G security. Seems hackers have geared with their tools to hack faster by leveraging the technology with faster SQL Injection, DDoS attack etc.
DDoS [distributed denial of service] attacks often involve legions of zombie computers -- machines infected with viruses and commanded to simultaneously visit a website. The most popular website Wikipedia went down in several countries after the website was targeted by what it described as a "malicious attack". DDoS attacks often involve legions of zombie computers -- machines infected with viruses and commanded to simultaneously visit a website.
Wikipedia was forced offline in several countries Friday after a cyber attack hit the global encyclopedia. Users across Europe and parts of the Middle East experienced outages shortly before 7pm, BST.
Wikimedia’s German Twitter account posted: “The Wikimedia server, is currently being paralysed by a massive and very broad DDOS attack. Wikimedia condemned the breach of its server, saying it threatened "everyone's fundamental rights to freely access and share information.
The server of the Wikimedia Foundation, Encyclopedia -- one of the world's most popular websites -- was "ongoing" and teams were working to restore access, which hosts the site, suffered a "massive" Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, the organisation's German account said in a tweet late September 6 and teams were working to restore access.
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