Denial-of-service attacks that target and use misconfigured network routing equipment pose an “imminent and real threat” to Internet security, according to a recent report (download .pdf) by the ...

The DDoS attack on Azure came just hours before a global internet outage caused by problems at the content delivery network, Cloudflare ...

Microsoft recently mitigated a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack aimed at its Azure cloud service.

A sudden increase in a particularly dangerous type of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack could portend big trouble for companies, according to VeriSign Inc. The Mountain View, Calif.-based ...

Microsoft confirmed that Azure blocked a denial-of-service attack that involved more than 500,000 IP addresses spread across ...

A pair of attacks revealed by researchers this year underscored the fragility of the Domain Name System (DNS) and the security extensions (DNSSEC) that were adopted to help secure the world's internet ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Denial-of-service (DoS) and distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have been around ...

‘This might have disrupted businesses, but thanks to the efforts of AWS engineers our customers were quickly protected from this new attack,’ says AWS CEO Adam Selipsky. Amazon Web Services confirmed ...

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WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Internet companies Google, Amazon and Cloudflare say they have weathered the internet's largest-known denial of service attack and are sounding the alarm over a new ...

Smaller, less obvious targets flag need for managed security services... An increasing number of smaller companies are being targeted by denial of service attacks, showing it's not just large ...