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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MARLBOROUGH, Mass., Jan. 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Corero Network Security (AIM: CNS) (OTCQX: DDOSF), the distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection specialists, today announced that UK Dedicated ...

(Bloomberg) -- A cyberattack that brought down Elon Musk’s X targeted servers that were insufficiently protected from malicious traffic, according to cybersecurity analysts. Users of the social media ...

A DDoS ransom attack occurs when a cyber-criminal tries to extort money from an organization by posing a threat to their web applications. The 11 biggest DDoS ransom cyber-attacks of 2020 resulted in ...

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 ...

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 ...

You might have heard of DoS and DDoS. The idea behind such an attack is to bring down the servers of any organization, thereby not allowing them to provide service to its users. Usually, the main ...