It is a form of what is known as a "denial-of-service" (DoS) attack. Such DoS onslaughts date back to the 1990s. They show no sign of abating, even as techniques to thwart them have improved.

Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare said it recently blocked the largest recorded volumetric distributed ...

Investigators are piecing together details about one of the most aggressive computer attacks in recent memory — a powerful "denial-of-service" assault that overwhelmed computers.

Cloudflare mitigated a record 11.5 Tbps DDoS attack in 35 seconds, highlighting rising hyper-volumetric threats.

During the week of February 7-11, 2000, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks emerged as a major new way to wage cyber-war on the Internet. That week, such attacks struck many sites ...

Project scrambles for mitigation as AUR, forums, and main site feel the strain Some joyless ne'er-do-well has loosed a botnet ...

This distributed denial of service attack is about 60% more powerful than the 7.3Tbps assault that Cloudflare blocked in May.

A large-scale distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) against New Hampshire-based Internet performance company Dyn caused major Internet disruptions Friday. Users were unable to access many ...

On Monday, cybersecurity firm, Imperva, released a report on Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks–a crippling form of hacker attack that can literally take a business or person offline ...

SEATTLE – A distributed denial-of-service, or DDos, attack has long been a way to make a political statement or commit extortion against the owners and operators of a public-facing website.