Cyber attack on several major websites
Lesson Brief
Euronews
Last week, several major websites were temporarily affected by a denial of service of cyber attack. The attack targeted websites such as Ebay, Netflix, Spotify, and others, and left users without access or with limited access to the sites for hours. According to initial reports, the attack focused on the east coast of the US as users in Europe were not affected. The article for this set is a transcript for the attached video.
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- providing service
- تقديم الخدمة
- the affected sites
- المواقع المتضررة
- information attack
- هجوم معلوماتي
- to concentrate on
- رَكَّزَ على ، يُرَكِّزُ على
- major services
- الخدمات الرئيسية
- provider
- مزود
- apparently
- وعلى ما يبدو
- to include
- ُشَمِلَ ، يَشْمَل
- to target
- ُاِسْتَهْدَفَ ، يَسْتَهْدِف
- users were not affected
- لم يتأثر المستخدمون