Servers could be haunted by a ghost from the 1980s, as hackers have started abusing an obsolete routing protocol to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks. DDoS attacks observed in May by the ...

Researchers warn several BitTorrent protocols can be leveraged to carry out distributed reflective denial of service (DRoS) attacks. Researchers warn that several protocols used by the peer-to-peer ...

Attackers are turning away from reflection-style attacks, which use Internet services to amplify traffic, toward compromised Internet of Things devices, according to the recently released Q3 2016 DDoS ...

New reflected distributed denial of service attack techniques are increasing the volume of each attack as well as the overall frequency of large-scale DDoS attacks. Reflected distributed denial of ...

I am sure all of you know its meaning. For those new to the term, it is “distributed” Denial of Service – caused by the way too many requests to the server than it can handle. When unable to process ...

BitTorrent fixed a vulnerability that would have allowed attackers to hijack BitTorrent applications used by hundreds of millions of users in order to amplify distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) ...

Aging networking protocols still employed by nearly every Internet-connected device are being abused by hackers to conduct distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Security vendor Prolexic found ...

The frequency of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks increased this year due in part to Internet of Things botnets, according to information service provider Neustar. The company said it ...