The massive DDoS attacks that hit OVH and Brian Krebs are likely to escalate after hackers publicly released the Mirai source code, which can turn poorly secured web devices into a zombie army on the ...

Microsoft said a DDoS attack was the initial cause of the disruption, but its own defences amplified the attack instead of mitigating it. Microsoft is at the centre of another IT disruption this week, ...

KrebsOnSecurity last week was hit by a near record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that clocked in at more than 6.3 terabits of data per second (a terabit is one trillion bits of data).

Cloudflare has claimed to have recently mitigated the biggest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack in history. In a company blog post, Cloudflare outlined how, throughout September 2024, an ...

Microsoft said an outage of Azure cloud applications was triggered by a distributed-denial-of-service cyberattack, hours before the company was due to report its ...

Cloudflare says it blocked a 5.6Tbps DDoS attack in October 2024 The attack came from a Mirai botnet It included 13,000 IPs, and lasted 80 seconds Cloudflare has claimed it recently blocked the ...

Tech oligarch Elon Musk has drawn criticism from cyber security experts following unsubstantiated claims that Ukraine was behind an apparent distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on his social ...

Cloudflare is a robust content delivery network (CDN) that specializes in providing protection against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Last month, Cloudflare blocked the largest DDoS ...

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