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Whisky business: Uni of Edinburgh servers Irn-Scru'd by cyber-attack

2018-09-12 19:26

Computers nerfed with naff packets during Scottish college's Freshers week The University of Edinburgh has gone offline from what appears to be a massive distributed denial-of-service attack on the campus network.…

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