DDoS attacks differ from Denial of Service (DoS) attacks in that they rely on different IP addresses. In other words, the attack comes from multiple different sources, rather than just one location.

Over the Labor Day weekend, Cloudflare says it successfully stopped a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 11.5 terabits per second (Tbps). This came only a few ...

Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare said it recently blocked the largest recorded volumetric distributed ...

DoS attacks underscore Net's vulnerability The White House's and CERT's Web sites are among the important pages recently hit by denial-of-service attacks that pose increasing threats.

Besides mitigating massive DDoS attacks, Cloudflare has also been in the news for its Pay Per Crawl scheme. Rather than AI ...

Important security updates have been released for industrial control systems from Hitachi and others. However, a patch is ...

The Flipper Zero can be used in a specific type of DoS (Denial of Service) attack and spam all nearby iPhones.

A new denial-of-service attack dubbed 'Loop DoS' targeting application layer protocols can pair network services into an indefinite communication loop that creates large volumes of traffic.

Qualys software engineer devises a new type of slow read HTTP denial-of-service attack and releases a tool to test it ...

Popular social-networking site Facebook was hit with a DoS (denial-of-service) attack Thursday, but the attack did not appear to be as severe as one that crippled Twitter the same day. Facebook ...

To compare a DoS attack on an e-mail server to mass murder--even obliquely--is reprehensible. Using such an absurd comparison to justify ignoring the issues involved in Homeland Security is wrong ...