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LETA news agency hit by DDoS attack on Wednesday
BC, Riga, 18.01.2018.
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Print versionThe Latvian news agency LETA survived a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Wednesday, January 17th.
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The cyber attack began around 1.30 p.m., making access to LETA's website
difficult for several hours, but the company's IT experts managed to solve the
problems caused by the attack.
A DDoS attack means that immense numbers of requests generated by multiple
sources are sent to a server to cause an overload and to stop the server from
working.
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