Source: The Guardian
Summary
Facebook has suffered a large-scale DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack, causing an outage on the social networking site. This is the latest in a series of DDoS attacks to hit Facebook this year. According to reports, the attack was carried out by a group of hackers. The attack led to users experiencing difficulties accessing the site.
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Facebook’s latest DDoS attack is just another day on the internet. The social media giant has been hit with yet another large-scale attack, because who doesn’t love a good game of “can we crash Facebook”? The attack was likely carried out by a group of hackers, because of course it was. This is the latest in a series of DDoS attacks to hit Facebook this year, because apparently, they’re just that popular. Facebook’s security team is probably just thrilled to be dealing with this again.
Author: Evan Null
