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?

DDoS attacks are growing significantly. Nowadays, DDoS protection is a commodity service, and you can protect your web application from DDoS attacks almost entirely, or even fully, for free. However, ...

Hackers use sophisticated tactics to overwhelm networks, both as tools of protests and as ruses to distract from serious crimes “It’s no longer hidden. It’s very, very public, it’s well known,” said ...

As the internet has become more accessible over the years, bad actors around the world have found it easier to use it to commit crimes and harass others. That's unfortunate — as much as the internet ...

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 ...

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks occur when an individual device, known as a bot, or a network of devices, known as a botnet, is infected with malware. These bots or botnets flood websites ...

Distributed denial of service is a type of DoS attack where multiple compromised systems, which are often joined with a Trojan, are used to target a single system causing an attack. The DDoS attack ...

Threat groups are constantly getting more sophisticated in their attempts to evade detection and enact harm. One common tactic that many security practitioners have witnessed is carrying out ...

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

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