The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is aware of open-source reporting of targeted denial-of-service (DoS) and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against finance and ...

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the FBI, and the multistate information sharing, and analysis center (MS-ISAC) have, in a joint effort, released an advisory to defend ...

Large-scale attacks designed to bring down Internet services by sending them more traffic than they can process keep getting bigger, with the largest one yet, measured at 7.3 terabits per second, ...

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?

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 ...

According to new data released by Netscout, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are on the rise. There were 17 million such attacks in 2024 – up from 13 million the year before. It’s an ...

Cyberattacks continue to make headlines as hackers target an ever-growing number of organizations lacking comprehensive security measures. Particularly vulnerable to system intrusions are VoIP (Voice ...

Historically, distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks were almost minor nuisances implemented by novice attackers, and most were easy to mitigate. That is not the case anymore. The prevalence of ...

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 ...

CISA is aware of open-source reporting of targeted denial-of-service (DoS) and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against multiple organizations in multiple sectors. These attacks can cost ...