For any company that relies heavily on online sales and transactions, the increasing number of cyberattacks targeting e-commerce websites is a growing concern. E-commerce websites are vulnerable to ...

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 ...

The global coronavirus crisis has dramatically increased consumer interest in e-commerce, e-learning, online communications, and entertainment. The number and frequency of DDoS attacks was a trend ...

Pankaj Gupta, Senior Director at Citrix, outlines how distributed denial of service attacks have become increasingly sophisticated, bigger and economically motivated. Distributed denial of service ...

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 ...

In the cat-and-mouse game between DDoS hackers and defenders, it seems protection vendors have made great progress in the past year - particularly in the realm of application-layer attacks.

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 ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Apex Legends developer Respawn Entertainment has announced a new feature that's sure to please players around the globe: DDoS protection. The ...

As Internet attacks go, data floods designed to knock servers offline are among the crudest, akin to a brutish caveman wielding a club to clobber his rival. Over the years, those clubs have grown ever ...

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 ...