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 ...

7 Ways to Stop VoIP DDoS Attacks from Crashing Your Phones Your email has been sent Threat actors are capable of launching massive VoIP DDoS attacks. Learn how to protect your VoIP network before they ...

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 ...

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 ...

What's in a DDoS attack? First of all, these attacks have changed a lot over time. Maybe not in terms of vectors, per se, but in terms of sophistication, for one thing. We remember the earlier, more ...

Security expert Cricket Liu lays out the workings of a DNS-based DDoS attack -- and how to prevent one from hitting your company There’s no disputing that DNS is a critical component of computer ...

Will Hogan is vice president of marketing and sales at Idappcom, a British firm that specializes in the provision of tools to test the efficacy of IP filtering appliances. He has contributed an ...

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Computer researchers in Europe are developing a new prototype architecture for halting distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks, where a barrage of traffic is directed at a Web site or server to ...