Have you ever been in the middle of an online gaming session, when all of a sudden, your connection dropped? Of course, this usually tends to happen at the worst time ever, such as right in the middle ...

Millions of individuals worldwide spend countless hours each year engaged in online gaming, propelling the industry’s growth in recent years. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) assaults, in ...

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Hackers use sophisticated tactics to overwhelm networks, both as tools of protests and as ruses to distract from serious crimes “It’s no longer hidden. It’s very, very public, it’s well known,” said ...

According to new data released by Netscout, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are on the rise. There were 17 million such attacks in 2024 – up from 13 million the year before. It’s an ...

Security company Qualys is offering a tool admins can use to work out how vulnerable their servers might be to simple but often hard-to-detect a types of DDoS attack that exploit vulnerabilities in ...

Plex patches media server bug potentially exploited by DDoS attackers Your email has been sent All users of Plex Media Server are urged to apply the hotfix, which directs their servers to respond to ...