Labour Party's DDoS attack 'unsophisticated' and not even categorised by the NCSC

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Cloudflare and the NCSC play down the scale of the 'large and sophisticated' DDoS attack on the Labour Party

The distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the Labour Party today has been described as "nothing special" and did not even make it onto the National Cyber Security Centre's (NCSC) lowest ca...

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