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Attackers are pummeling networks around the world with millions of login attempts (arstechnica.com)

submitted 8 months ago by kid to c/cybersecurity

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Indeed but in this particular case they're using a large number of IPs, over 3000 on the last list I saw.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

yeah and im thinking from an early 2000 perspective to where not being able to login for an hour was not necessarily a big deal. Whereas now so much of our life is online its not really as laid back a proposition.