Distributed denial of service is a type of DoS attack where multiple compromised systems, which are often joined with a Trojan, are used to target a single system causing an attack. The DDoS attack ...

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?

Researchers at Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Telecom Paris (INFRES) have created a new computational method that could detect Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks more efficiently and ...

Cloudflare is a robust content delivery network (CDN) that specializes in providing protection against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Last month, Cloudflare blocked the largest DDoS ...

DDoS attacks are growing significantly. Nowadays, DDoS protection is a commodity service, and you can protect your web application from DDoS attacks almost entirely, or even fully, for free. However, ...

After early excitement about artificial intelligence (AI) in the late 1980s and early 1990s, followed by a couple of "AI winters" — periods of reduced funding, interest and even disillusionment — we ...

As the internet has become more accessible over the years, bad actors around the world have found it easier to use it to commit crimes and harass others. That's unfortunate — as much as the internet ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Illustration from Shutterstock.com Never heard of a DDoS attack? Small companies that do business online ought to learn about this ...

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 ...