Pavel Jelic Nine o'clock in the evening has just struck and we have traditionally prepared another IT summary for you. If you are wondering what you can look forward to in today's summary, we can tell you that Amazon has become the victim of the biggest hacker attack in the world. In the next news, we will take a look at one game gem that you can play for free this weekend, and we will also share with you information regarding the upcoming title DiRT 5. Finally, we will look at the end of the operation of telephone booths, or telephone machines, in the Czech Republic the republic.
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Amazon has become the victim of the biggest hacking attack in history
Amazon's web services were hit by a massive DDoS attack earlier today. These web server overload attacks are quite common on the internet, however this particular attack on Amazon was so intense that it most likely became the most intense DDoS attack in history. According to the ZDNet portal, data transfer reaches values of up to around 2.3 Tb/s, similar attacks often do not even reach values of 500 Gb/s. Until now, this strange record was held by the company NETSCOUT, against which an attack worth up to 2017 TB/s was "developed" in 1.7. Amazon became the target of this attack already in February of this year, but reported about it only now, through an information report on the first quarter of 2020. A month ago, GitHub also faced a very strong DDoS attack, specifically with a maximum intensity of around 1.35 Tb/s . Amazon further states that between Q2 2018 and Q4 2019, it experienced several different DDoS attacks, but none of them exceeded the intensity threshold of 1 Tb/s.
Assassin's Creed Free!
If you're a game enthusiast and you're more interested in RPG games, then you definitely haven't missed the games from the Assasin's Creed game series. This game series has been with us for several long years, during which time players have seen the release of several different installments - some of them were amazing, some were average, and a few of them were unfortunately below average. If you have nothing to do this weekend, I have good news for you. Assasin's Creed: Origins is available for this weekend, i.e. for the period from June 19 to 21, absolutely free. You can add the aforementioned game title to your library completely free of charge via the Ubisoft website. You don't have to worry about somehow buying the game after the free play period ends - because it is automatically blocked and you have to buy the game anyway. The good news is that in this case your progress will be saved. So if you decide to buy the game, you won't have to start over.
- You can download Assassin's Creed: Origins for free using this link
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DiRT 5 will be released in October
While in the last paragraph we focused on the RPG game from the popular Assassin's Creed series, in this paragraph all enthusiasts of racing games, specifically rally ones, will find their way. If you're one of those gamers who like to connect a steering wheel, pedals and handbrake to your computer, then you're definitely familiar with the DiRT game series. The first part of this popular game was released back in 2007, during which time we saw various sequels, including a more realistic branch in the form of Dirt Rally. The good news is that Codemasters, the game studio behind the Dirt series, has announced the next installment in the series via a trailer - this time it's DiRT 5. You can check out the trailer itself below, and as for the release date, we'll have to wait already on October 9 on PC, PS4 and Xbox One, in addition to them, DiRT 5 will later be available on PS5 and Xbox Series X. The new DiRT will include various well-known racers, the game will also offer up to 130 different races, 9 types of races and 5 career chapter.
The end of phone booths
Let's face it, public payphones, better known as telephone booths, are not very (or at all) popular these days. Nowadays, everyone has a mobile phone together with a tariff, and in addition, mobile data is gradually starting to be used for phone calls. These are exactly the main reasons that lead O2 to phase out payphones. In addition, due to the current coronavirus situation, the term "public" is not popular at all - this is probably why O2 decided to end the phone booths. The end of public payphones began to gather momentum last year, when a total of 2750 machines were removed - for this year, only 1150 remain. And it is precisely these 1150 payphones that O2 is to completely get rid of this year - the Czech Republic will therefore completely lose all payphones.
Source: 1 – zdnet.com; 2 - ubisoft.com; 3 - youtube.com/dirt; 4 - novinky.cz
