Lights go out across Europe
Wikimedia has fingered a massive distributed-denial-of-service attack for outages at Wikipedia across Europe over the weekend.
The encyclopedia's publisher said the attack hit its sites in several countries making them intermittently inaccessible. At the time of writing, the UK and main European language versions were working.
A statement from the organisation said it, along with other popular sites, suffered occasional attacks from "bad faith actors".
The statement said: "We operate in an increasingly sophisticated and complex environment where threats are continuously evolving. Because of this, the Wikimedia communities and Wikimedia Foundation have created dedicated systems and staff to regularly monitor and address risks. If a problem occurs, we learn, we improve, and we prepare to be better for next time.
"We condemn these sorts ..
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