Tag: Wikipedia
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Online Safety Bill age checks? We won’t do ’em, says Wikipedia
Wikipedia won’t be age-gating its services no matter what final form the UK’s Online Safety Bill takes, two senior folks from nonprofit …
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Wikipedia Gets $2.5m Donation to Boost Cybersecurity
The Wikimedia Foundation has received a $2.5m donation to boost its cybersecurity efforts following a major DDoS attack that left Wikipedia …
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The Wikimedia Foundation taps $2.5M from Craig Newmark to beef up its security
Last week, users around the world found Wikipedia down after the online, crowdsourced encyclopedia became the target of a massive, …
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What a bunch of DoSers: Wikipedia says it was walloped by ‘bad faith’ actors over weekend
Wikimedia has fingered a massive distributed-denial-of-service attack for outages at Wikipedia across Europe over the weekend. The …
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DDoS Attack Forces Wikipedia Offline
Wikipedia was forced offline in several countries over the weekend after a coordinated DDoS attack. A statement from the Wikimedia …
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Fired sysadmin pleads guilty to doxxing five senators on Wikipedia
Cosko, 27, pleaded guilty to two counts of making public restricted personal information, one count of computer fraud, one count of witness tampering and one count of obstruction of justice related to publicizing the private information of five senators in autumn 2018. …
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Major websites still fail to steer users towards better passwords
The death of passwords is predicted with regular frequency, but we’re still to see it actually happen. It’s possible that it will …
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Google Repeats Wikipedia Hoax, Labeling California Republicans As Nazis
Wikipedia vandalism has produced some entertaining tropes over the years, as hoaxers edit pages for entertainment value. Thus, we’ve been …
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Google Repeats Wikipedia Hoax Labeling California Republicans As Nazis
Wikipedia vandalism has produced some entertaining tropes over the years, as hoaxers edit pages for entertainment value. Thus, we’ve been …
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YouTube conspiracy videos to get links to Wikipedia and other sources
Were the US moon landings faked? Did director Stanley Kubrick rig the astronauts up with theatrical wires in a movie studio and bounce them …
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