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Agent 007 would never put up with this type of attack.  MI5’s website was down for part of 30 September after a possible cyber-attack.  The UK’s security service public site was briefly unavailable for intermittent periods in the morning but is now back online, with the incident resolved.[1]  Quick action by the new cyber “agents.”

Pro-Russian hackers allegedly attacked MI5’s public website, briefly causing it to go offline as the Ukrainian conflict continued to escalate.  A group called Anonymo

Google Cloud has claimed to have blocked the largest Layer 7 (HTTPS) DDoS attack to date after a Cloud Armor customer was targeted by a series of attacks that peaked at 46 million requests per second (rps).  Google explained the attack, which occurred on 1 June 2022, was at least 76% larger than the previously reported HTTPS DDoS record and showed characteristics that link it to the Mēris attack family.

Google said its Cloud Armor Adaptive Protection was able to detect and analyze the traffic ea

Masked demonstrators in Hong Kong; the sign says “Carrie Lam is not my mother”

Hong Kong protests in June 2019 brought as many as two million demonstrators onto the streets to fight a planned extradition law that would allow mainland China’s government to pull dissenters from Hong Kong for charging in Beijing.  These mass demonstrations were largely coordinated through Telegram, an app that provides end-to-end encryption and the ability to manage communications for very large groups. 

On 12 June