What is a DDoS attack? A distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) sees an attacker flooding the network or servers of the victim with a wave of internet traffic so big that their ...

In 2016, hackers using a network of compromised internet-connected devices — vulnerable security cameras and routers — knocked some of the then biggest websites on the internet offline for several ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate O’Flaherty is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist. Cloudflare has mitigated the biggest distributed denial of service ...

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 ...

The cyber-world is witnessing a remarkable surge in DDoS attacks orchestrated by hacktivists. The scope of these attacks is broad and indiscriminate - they target everyone, from large-scale businesses ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and automation have changed the playing field of devising and defending against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The same reasons why enterprises turn to AI, ...

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This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. ChatGPT saw an outage last week which has been blamed on a ...