Tag Archive for: Wikipedia

Wikipedia and World of Warcraft Classic targeted by DDoS attacks

Uou can imagine the pain that was caused to pub quiz cheats and students writing essays this weekend when crowd-sourced internet encyclopedia Wikipedia, one of the world’s most popular websites, was hit by a distributed denial-of-service attack.

Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

Graham Cluley

Wikipedia link censorship shows Bonnie & Clyde might have had ‘right to be forgotten’

The caretakers of Wikipedia this morning have given us an enlightening look at the type of individuals and organizations who are benefiting – or at least appear to be benefiting – from the misguided “right to be forgotten” campaign being imposed by European censors on Google and other search engines.

Among the beneficiaries: an Irish bank robber so notorious he’s been portrayed in a series of motion pictures; and an Italian criminal gang that’s also straight out of Central Casting.

Of the 328,000 links that Google has so far been coerced into removing, more than 50 were to Wikipedia, the organization reports.

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Network World Paul McNamara

Mobile Firefox OS & Wikipedia to be delivered for free via text messages

Mozilla has created an open platform for mobile phones that “is an extension of the Firefox experience you know and love so you can expect all the security, privacy, customization and user control Firefox has always delivered.” 
Ms. Smith’s blog