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 ...

Plex Media Server systems are actively being abused by DDoS-for-hire services as a UDP reflection/amplification vector in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Plex Media Server provides users ...

Aging networking protocols still employed by nearly every Internet-connected device are being abused by hackers to conduct distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Security vendor Prolexic found ...

The latest cyber attacks against financial institutions and other big companies reflect a refinement of the familiar old tactic of overwhelming a server with massive amounts of traffic, according to ...

European law enforcement agencies say they've arrested the administrators of a website that allowed users to pay to knock selected websites offline. The site Webstresser.org let paying customers — for ...

Attackers abused insecure Network Time Protocol servers to launch what appears to be one of the largest DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks ever reported, this time against the infrastructure ...

What is a DDoS attack? A distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) sees an attacker flooding the network or servers of the victim with a wave of internet traffic so big that their ...

At least once each month, Terra Lycos SA’s high-profile Internet media products, such as Lycos Mail, Tripod and Angelfire, come under a denial-of-service (DOS) attack. As host to more than 300 ...