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> discovered that the number of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks launched against school networks and websites has more doubled from 2019 to 2020.
by maccard 5y ago
> discovered that the number of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks launched against school networks and websites has more doubled from 2019 to 2020.
"More than doubled" could be from 1 in 2019 to 3 in 2020. The "study" that it links to [0] doesn't mentionhow many there were in 2019 or 2020. I'm really curious how many there actually were to roll this out nationwide in primary and secondary schools?
[0] https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/rise-in-school-cyber-crime-attacks-sparks-nca-education-drive https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/rise-in-school-c...
- Lammy 5y agoThe study says "more than doubled during the Covid-19 pandemic", so it's weird that the article tries to tie it to gaming and not to kids trying to avoid remote learning: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/supporting-your-childrens-education-during-coronavirus-covid-19 https://www.gov.uk/guidance/supporting-your-childrens-educat...