The Internet Archive has been fending off DDoS attacks for days

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The Internet Archive has been fending off DDoS attacks for days
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If you couldn't access the Internet Archive and its Wayback Machine over the past few days, that's because the website has been under attack. In fact, the nonprofit organization hasthat it's currently in its "third day of warding off an intermittent DDoS cyber-attack" in a blog post.

The Internet Archive has yet to identify the source of the attacks, but it did talk about how libraries and similar institutions are being targeted more frequently these days. One of the institutions it mentioned was the British Library whose online information system was held hostage for ransom by a hacker group last year.

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