A criminal cyberattack known as a “distributed denial of service” targeted LancasterOnline on Tuesday. Visitors were unable to read stories on the news website, publication to the mobile app was ...

Start with timing. In 2024, roughly 44% of DDoS campaigns concluded within five minutes. This year, that figure jumped to 78% ...

Warnings from security experts increase after reports of a 26 percent rise in cyberattacks in quarter three of 2024, highlighting a rising cybersecurity crisis, as businesses brace for even more of ...

A new report from content delivery network provider Cloudflare Inc. today details a disturbing rise in distributed denial-of-service attacks in the first quarter, including a surge of attacks against ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate O’Flaherty is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist. Cloudflare has mitigated the biggest distributed denial of service ...

Pro-Russian group NoName057(16) uses a denial-of-service tool to mobilize volunteers and disrupt sites and organization tied ...

An apparent Russian script kiddie is converting widespread security gaps into a powerful botnet capable of launching global-scale distributed denial-of-service attacks. See Also: From Intel to Action: ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Denial-of-service (DoS) and distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have been around ...

Redmond has confirmed the eight-hour Azure outage on July 30 was triggered by a distributed denial-of-service attack, but an “error in the implementation of [their ...

The launch of Final Fantasy 14's latest Savage Raid tier is marred by DDoS attacks affecting the game's servers, though the problem is not a new one.