As the internet has become more accessible over the years, bad actors around the world have found it easier to use it to commit crimes and harass others. That's unfortunate — as much as the internet ...

Hitachi Solutions teamed with application security firm Radware in a deal that will have Hitachi’s IT services arm offer ...

Microsoft's Azure successfully defended against the largest cloud DDoS attack ever recorded, peaking at 15.72 Tbps and nearly ...

Will Hogan is vice president of marketing and sales at Idappcom, a British firm that specializes in the provision of tools to test the efficacy of IP filtering appliances. He has contributed an ...

Security expert Cricket Liu lays out the workings of a DNS-based DDoS attack -- and how to prevent one from hitting your company There’s no disputing that DNS is a critical component of computer ...

What's in a DDoS attack? First of all, these attacks have changed a lot over time. Maybe not in terms of vectors, per se, but in terms of sophistication, for one thing. We remember the earlier, more ...

Thankfully, Microsoft's distributed DDoS Protection infrastructure was able to detect and stop the attack before any harm was ...

The US government has published new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack guidance for public sector entities to help prevent disruption to critical services. The document is designed to serve ...

Dealing with a distributed denial-of-service attack such as the one that took down The SCO Group Inc.’s Web site this week continues to be a major challenge for companies, security experts said. But ...

Computer researchers in Europe are developing a new prototype architecture for halting distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks, where a barrage of traffic is directed at a Web site or server to ...

Average packet-per-second (PPS) DDoS attack sizes surged 242% between the first and second halves of 2024, highlighting the need for greater threat mitigation. Network-based DDoS attacks continue to ...

Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks, known as DDoS, are considered by many security experts to be the single largest threat to cloud computing. DDoS attacks are reported as comprising 5 percent of ...