European law enforcement agencies say they've arrested the administrators of a website that allowed users to pay to knock selected websites offline. The site Webstresser.org let paying customers — for ...

The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued a warning about the threat posed by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks from Russia-linked hacking groups who are reported to be ...

A criminal cyberattack known as a “distributed denial of service” targeted LancasterOnline on Tuesday. Visitors were unable to read stories on the news website, publication to the mobile app was ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In 2022, the total number of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks worldwide increased by 115.1% over the amount observed in 2021, according to new research from ...

A sad and scary new record was set this past week, with the latest and biggest distributed denial-of-service attack. The network security provider Cloudflare Inc. posted on its blog today that it had ...

Denial of service is usually caused by people trying to cause problems or by misconfiguration of software. Mail bombing, distributed denial-of-service attacks, and list-subscription bombing are ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate O’Flaherty is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist. Cloudflare has mitigated the biggest distributed denial of service ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) are issuing this announcement to raise awareness that Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks ...

The average size of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks decreased by 85% on a YoY basis during Q4 2018 after the FBI seized the domains of 15 of the world's biggest "booters" (DDoS-for-hire ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Internet companies Google, Amazon and Cloudflare say they have weathered the internet's largest-known denial of service attack and are sounding the alarm over a new ...

Domain registrar and hosting company GoDaddy.com was hit with “significant and sustained” distributed denial-of-service attacks Sunday, the company said. The attacks caused four to five hours of ...

A new report from content delivery network provider Cloudflare Inc. today details a disturbing rise in distributed denial-of-service attacks in the first quarter, including a surge of attacks against ...