Distributed denial-of-service attack -- which by some estimates total more than 4,000 a week -- are likely to get much worse as the perpetrators hone their skills and new weaknesses in popular ...

CISA is aware of open-source reporting of targeted denial-of-service (DoS) and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against multiple organizations in multiple sectors. These attacks can cost ...

If unnecessarily heavy workloads are hitting your SQL box, it's time to start treating them like inside hacking jobs I often see shops with heavy reports hitting their database boxes, with little ...

The Service Location Protocol (SLP, RFC 2608) allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to register arbitrary services. This could allow an attacker to use spoofed UDP traffic to conduct a ...

Researchers warned that a low-volume BlackNurse DoS attack launched via a single laptop can bring some firewalls to their knees An attacker doesn’t need an IoT botnet or massive resources for a denial ...

The WordPress.com blog-hosting service suffered a denial-of-service (DoS) attack that began Saturday and was still preventing users from logging in or posting to their blogs on Tuesday. Matt Mullenweg ...

Microsoft Corp. today said it had yet to be affected by a Mydoom.B worm-induced distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which antivirus software companies predicted would be fairly easy for the ...

Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday said it had yet to be affected by a Mydoom-B worm-induced distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, which anti-virus software companies predicted would be fairly easy for ...