David Mound, senior penetration tester at cybersecurity firm SecurityScorecard Inc, said most large websites have strong protections against such attacks, including web application firewalls and other security technologies that protect their origin servers from being directly accessed via the Internet. — AFP
A cyberattack that brought down Elon Musk’s X targeted servers that were insufficiently protected from malicious traffic, according to cybersecurity analysts.
Users of the social media platform faced intermittent outages through Monday, which Musk blamed on a "large, coordinated group” or country waging a "massive cyberattack.” He didn’t provide any additional specifics to bolster his claim.
