{"id":40496,"date":"2023-04-12T05:49:03","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T05:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/tor-networks-hit-by-wave-of-ddos-attacks\/"},"modified":"2023-04-12T05:49:03","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T05:49:03","slug":"tor-networks-hit-by-wave-of-ddos-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/tech\/tor-networks-hit-by-wave-of-ddos-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Tor networks hit by wave of DDoS attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Home News Computing (Image credit: FrameStockFootages \/ Shutterstock) For the past seven months, anonymous communications platform Tor has been experiencing different types of Distributed Denial of Service (opens in new tab) (DDoS) attacks causing outages and slowdowns for users, the company has revealed.In a company blog post (opens in new tab), Tor project executive director Isabela Dias Fernandes said the attacks would be sometimes be so severe that users would experience slow page loads, or in more extreme cases, the pages wouldn\u2019t load at all.The project\u2019s engineers are \u201cworking hard\u201d to tackle the problem, she added, but also said that&#8230; 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