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 ...

Cloudflare recently published data that offers clear insight into where the DDoS threat environment is heading. DDoS attacks are becoming larger, more ...

Will Hogan is vice president of marketing and sales at Idappcom, a British firm that specializes in the provision of tools to test the efficacy of IP filtering appliances. He has contributed an ...

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?

Last quarter we wrote about what an employee might first witness when facing 10 common cyberattacks. Then we provided guidance for the employee on how to react to each scenario. This week we highlight ...

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 ...

Google has said it successfully prevented one of the largest DDoS (Distributed Denial-of-Service) attacks on record, with an unprecedented peak of over 398 million requests per second (RPS). In making ...

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have disrupted state websites, digital court services and more this year. Now, federal agencies are calling all levels of government to heed the threat and ...