Book publishers and The Internet Archive recently faced off in court, and the first round landed in favor of book publishers. Judge John G. Koeltl ruled that libraries must continue to adhere to the ...

The Internet Archive was breached again, this time on their Zendesk email support platform after repeated warnings that threat actors stole exposed GitLab authentication tokens. Since last night, ...

A targeted hack on the Internet Archive has threatened billions of archived web pages and a comprehensive digital history of the globe. The website remained offline on Friday after its founder ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lars Daniel covers digital evidence and forensics in life and law. At the end of this article, you will find explanations of the ...

Twelve slashed zeros and a one, made of wood and latex paint, stand tall on the roof of the former church where the Internet Archive is headquartered in San Francisco.

The Internet Archive, a cherished digital library offering access to millions of free books, movies, music, and websites, has recently emerged from a significant cyberattack. A pop-up message of the ...

A group linked to a pro-Palestinian hacktivist movement has launched a catastrophic cyberattack revealing the details of 31 million people, compromising their email addresses and screen names. An ...

There are few organizations dedicated to the gargantuan task of preserving the vast, ever-shifting record of human activity that is the internet. The largest such record belongs to a nonprofit based ...

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Research shows 25% of web pages posted between 2013 and 2023 have vanished. A few organisations are racing to save the echoes of the web, but new risks threaten their very existence. It's possible, ...

Last month, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine archived its trillionth webpage, and the nonprofit invited its more than 1,200 library partners and 800,000 daily users to join a celebration of the ...

Update on 10/20/24 added to the bottom of this article. Internet Archive's "The Wayback Machine" has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication ...