CSOonline

Hammer time? WikiLeaks-inspired Java script DDoS planned

The WikiLeaks weird fest continues, with Mastercard getting hammered some more this past weekend and a Java script-based DDoS being planned and launched through i-frame based images. Before I go any ...
CSOonline

Ongoing DDoS knocks FTC.gov offline, hits others

If you tried to visit the FTC’s Web site Monday, you probably noticed that it was down. The FTC told The IDG News Service that it’s looking into the cause of the outage, but as their tech staff is ...
SiliconRepublic

GitHub falls victim to world’s largest DDoS attack: What you should know

GitHub weathers the largest-known DDoS attack in history as cyberattacks grow in sophistication. GitHub was the victim of the most powerful distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on record on ...
SiliconRepublic

The year of DDoS: 2023 has seen a significant attack surge

A report by Netscout claims there were 7.9m distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in the first half of the year, with the rise linked to geopolitical issues. With so many different types of ...
Óstáilte ar MSN

Cloudflare mitigates yet another record-breaking DDoS attack—which, at 22.2 Tbps, makes it nearly twice as big as the last hyper-volumetric attack

Seems like it was only the other week I was writing about Cloudflare throwing up its shields against a record-breaking DDoS attack—because it was. Yup, an attack pelting the servers with 11.5 Tbps ...