Distributed denial-of-service attack -- which by some estimates total more than 4,000 a week -- are likely to get much worse as the perpetrators hone their skills and new weaknesses in popular ...
So I'm guessing that one of the most basic / earliest forms of computer attack is the DOS attack by bombarding a router / pc / switch with packets. But how has this form of attack evolved over the ...
Distributed denial-of-service attacks have steadily increased over the last 18 months, despite being overshadowed by malware attacks and ransomware. Kaspersky Labs estimated 24% more DDoS attacks in ...
Security researchers have found over 178,000 SonicWall next-generation firewalls (NGFW) with the management interface exposed online are vulnerable to denial-of-service (DoS) and potential remote code ...
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 ...
Researchers from Salt Security Inc. today detailed a new application programming interface vulnerability that can lead to attacks on Elastic Stack. The vulnerability stems from a faulty implementation ...
OpenSSH has released security updates addressing two vulnerabilities, a man-in-the-middle (MitM) and a denial of service flaw, with one of the flaws introduced over a decade ago. Qualys discovered ...
Twitter was inaccessible for several hours on Thursday morning, followed by a period of slowness and sporadic time-outs (and more outright downtime). The company is blaming an "ongoing" ...
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 ...