The denial-of-service attack that left Twitter inaccessible for several hours on Thursday morning is just the latest in a string of problems for the rising star of social media. As the service ...

There’s bad news and good news about “denial-of-service” attacks on business websites. The bad news: The types of hackers whose exploits slowed or shut down some of the Internet’s largest ...

A DDoS attack is a flood of internet traffic from many different machines. It targets a single device, service, or network ...

Distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have become the scourge of the internet. DDoS attacks use compromised internet devices to generate enormous volumes of data and direct that data at a ...

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A large-scale distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) against New Hampshire-based Internet performance company Dyn caused major Internet disruptions Friday. Users were unable to access many ...

At least in part, the offensive used the same attack tool and user credentials that were involved in the denial-of-service (DoS) attack on Krebs On Security, as Krebs himself revealed in a blog post.

SEATTLE – A distributed denial-of-service, or DDos, attack has long been a way to make a political statement or commit extortion against the owners and operators of a public-facing website.

When a widespread technology facilitates a denial of service attack affecting a large number of people, and the technology is deployed mainly by a few players with deep pockets, the right way to ...

Denial-of-service-attack victim speaks out One victim breaks the silence and the stranglehold of extortionists. Written by Will Sturgeon, Contributor May 30, 2005 at 6:59 p.m. PT.

Alternately, a denial-of-service attack could have been targeting both high-profile companies. Facebook responded later in the morning on Thursday with a statement.