Restarting or bringing applications and services back online after a DDoS attack requires a sound knowledge of how the apps and systems work and interconnect. Teams need a methodical, documented ...

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?

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 attacks, despite being well known and well understood, remain a tried-and-true method malicious actors use to cause organizations financial and reputational harm.

Picture this: You're on a critical Monday morning video call with your team, delving into crucial project milestones. Suddenly, the call drops, everyone is disconnected, and your voice-over-IP (VoIP) ...

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At most any time of the day, there's a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack underway somewhere on the Internet. Yes, it's still true, despite reports that some ISPs have experienced fewer DDOS ...

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks certainly come to mind when considering cyberattacks that can cause widespread outages and service disruptions. These insidious attacks are on the rise, ...

"The thing I'd like everybody to realize is that there's a commonality among all of these attacks," Mosher says. " The objective of a DDoS attack is always the same - resource exhaustion." Mitigating ...

A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack floods a website, server, network, or domain name system (DNS) with harmful traffic. The goal is straightforward: overwhelm the target so real visitors ...

Distributed Denial Of Service (DDoS) attacks take many different forms and use a variety of techniques, but the goal is consistent: To overwhelm a service to the extent that it can't provide access to ...