For any company that relies heavily on online sales and transactions, the increasing number of cyberattacks targeting e-commerce websites is a growing concern. E-commerce websites are vulnerable to ...

PAID FEATURE In October 2021, in an incident lasting more than six hours, Facebook disappeared from the Internet. This wasn’t a temporary .com outage on the company’s primary domain but a complete ...

I am sure all of you know its meaning. For those new to the term, it is “distributed” Denial of Service – caused by the way too many requests to the server than it can handle. When unable to process ...

Pankaj Gupta, Senior Director at Citrix, outlines how distributed denial of service attacks have become increasingly sophisticated, bigger and economically motivated. Distributed denial of service ...

Bot attacks are one of the most common threats you can expect to deal with as you build your site or service. One exposed ...

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks have become more common, and Microsoft recently published a blog post looking into the trends for such attacks on its own servers. In that post, the ...

In the cat-and-mouse game between DDoS hackers and defenders, it seems protection vendors have made great progress in the past year - particularly in the realm of application-layer attacks.

DDoS-for-hire services are now actively abusing misconfigured or out-of-date Datagram Transport Layer Security (D/TLS) servers to amplify Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. DTLS is a ...

DDoS-for-hire services have found a way to abuse Plex Media servers to bounce junk traffic and amplify distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, security firm Netscout said in an alert on ...

Multiplayer gaming has moved from the LAN party to hyperscale data‑centres in little more than two decades. Each evolutionary step has enlarged the audience—and the attack surface. Denial‑of‑Service ...