Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is back online
AV Club · 19h
The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is back up after hack
News of the DDoS attack (which stands for “Distributed Denial of Service”) broke on October 9, when users attempting to access the Wayback Machine were met with a JavaScript alert that read: “Have you ever felt like the Internet Archive runs on sticks and is constantly on the verge of suffering a catastrophic security breach?
Ars Technica · 18h
The Internet Archive and its 916 billion saved web pages are back online
Founded in 1996, the nonprofit Internet Archive crawls the web to preserve pages that are publicly available and has captured 916 billion web pages so far. It has a staff of 150 people and also provides free access to many videos, audio files, and books (though it was recently forced to delete 500,000 books after losing a copyright case).
The Hindu · 6h
Internet Archive slowly returns to normal after DDoS cyberattack
Days after a distributed denial of service (DDoS) cyberattack that damaged the Internet Archive site and exposed user credentials, the online database of web pages and open source media is slowly returning to normal, but with some limitations.
Techopedia · 1d
Internet Archive Returns as Read-Only After Major Cyberattack
The Internet Archive was subjected to a series of DDoS attacks, reportedly by a hacker group called SN_BlackMeta, which rendered the site unusable since October 9. When readers attempted to access the site, they were greeted with a pop-up message stating that the website had experienced a catastrophic security breach.
ZDNet · 1d
Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is back up after data breach - with a catch
Launching the Wayback Machine now takes you to the usual page. From here, you can search for archived versions of a page by typing a URL or keywords. With the results that pop up, you're able to pick a specific date in the past and view a snapshot of that page as it was back then.
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