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Hackers take down the Globe

The Globe reports unknown hackers have unleashed large-scale "distributed denial of service" attacks against it that have taken down bostonglobe.com and its phone and content-management systems for parts of today and yesterday.

In DDOS attacks, hackers unleash armies of malware-infested personal computers to throw vast amounts of data at a particular target, taking it down until the site or its Internet provider figures out how to filter out the bad data packets.

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I was getting a cached Cloudflare page for U-Hub yesterday. Collateral damage or did the gnomes in the server just decide to take a break?

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ever since the Globe put up additional paywalling and I stopped visiting their site.

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... to see fishy comments, and was disappointed.

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