Tidbits

Fighting a Denial of Service Attack with AI Assistance

For those who want to skip to the main point, TidBITS experienced a denial of service attack last week, making our website inaccessible for a few hours on Wednesday. I was able to bring it back online ...
pv magazine International

Cyber threats for PV: What are distributed denial-of-service attacks and how do they work

Denial-of-service attacks overwhelm networked systems with massive traffic from compromised devices, disrupting communication and making critical services like PV system monitoring and control ...
Hosted on MSN

A remote denial-of-service exploit affects every major web server — NGINX, Apache HTTPD, Microsoft IIS, Envoy, and Cloudflare Pingora — researchers warn

Security researchers have identified a remote denial-of-service attack technique that targets HTTP/2 compression handling across five of the most widely deployed web servers: NGINX, Apache HTTPD, ...
TechCrunch

Ubuntu services hit by outages after DDoS attack

Hacktivists have claimed responsibility for taking down the public-facing infrastructure of popular Linux operating system distribution Ubuntu, as well as Canonical, the company that develops and ...
CSOonline

Faster attacks and ‘recovery denial’ ransomware reshape threat landscape

In 2025, attacker dwell time rose, voice phishing topped email phishing, and threat actors increasingly targeted backup and identity systems, according to Mandiant’s latest incident response data.