Denial-of-service attacks that target and use misconfigured network routing equipment pose an “imminent and real threat” to Internet security, according to a recent report (download .pdf) by the ...

A pair of attacks revealed by researchers this year underscored the fragility of the Domain Name System (DNS) and the security extensions (DNSSEC) that were adopted to help secure the world's internet ...

A year after distributed denial-of-service attacks blasted the likes of Yahoo Inc., eBay Inc. and ETrade Group Inc. off-line, no one has found an easy way to defend against a flood of unwanted ...

Warnings from security experts increase after reports of a 26 percent rise in cyberattacks in quarter three of 2024, highlighting a rising cybersecurity crisis, as businesses brace for even more of ...

‘This might have disrupted businesses, but thanks to the efforts of AWS engineers our customers were quickly protected from this new attack,’ says AWS CEO Adam Selipsky. Amazon Web Services confirmed ...

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Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Denial-of-service (DoS) and distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have been around ...

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 ...

Smaller, less obvious targets flag need for managed security services... An increasing number of smaller companies are being targeted by denial of service attacks, showing it's not just large ...

Bitcoin Knots' attempt at transaction filtering has been a completely ineffective and failed attempt to denial-of-service attack the Bitcoin network. This is a very basic concept. Someone makes use of ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation recently disrupted a network of hacked devices used by criminals in some of the largest online attacks yet seen. Now those devices have been hacked by someone new ...