On March 10, X experienced multiple outages, with tens of thousands of users reporting the social site was down for them. Later that day, after multiple failures, X came back online. What caused this?

One of the easiest ways to protect your website or app is to use a Web Application Firewall (WAF). A WAF can help protect your site from common DDoS attacks by letting only safe requests through and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hitachi Solutions teamed with application security firm Radware in a deal that will have Hitachi’s IT services arm offer Radware’s cloud application protection service, a cloud-based solution designed ...

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 ...

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 ...

DDoS attacks have grown over the years, but 2023 saw an “unforeseen” acceleration in their number and sophistication, according to the May 30 analyst note from HHS’ Office of Information Security and ...