As spotted by Linuxiac, the Arch Linux website is currently under siege from a DDoS attack. This type of attack floods a website with requests from bots, causing the servers to collapse under the ...

Europol's Operation PowerOFF has taken down DoS networks The global operation involved law enforcement from 15 countries ...

This isn't really a feasible method for attacking someone in this manner. Even if you had compromised TikTok's network, it's too easy to block a single point of origin(or even a small set of origin ...

The popular British anti-fraud site Bobbear.co.uk is currently under a DDoS attack (distributed denial of service attack) , originally launched last Wednesday, and is continuing to hit the site with 3 ...

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A website linked to more than four million cyber attacks across the globe, including those targeting some of the UK’s biggest banks, has been shut down, with arrests in Croatia, Serbia, Canada and ...

A leaked database from a hacked denial-of-service site has provided some insight into what sorts of targets individuals will pay to knock offline for a few dollars or bitcoin. And it's safe to say ...

The distributed denial-of-service attack, better know as a DDoS, is one of the more basic but effective ways of shutting down a website you might want to torment. Often, hackers use them to silence ...

WIRED tackled the big questions in security this week, starting with maybe the biggest: Why do so many people use "dragon" as their password? The answer actually says a lot about the psychology of ...