DoS attacks that took down big game sites abused Web’s time-sync protocol ... CEO of DoS-mitigation service Black Lotus, told Ars. "It was so tiny it never showed up in the major reports.

A type of denial of service attack relevant in the 1990s has resurfaced with surprising potency against modern-day firewalls. Dubbed a BlackNurse attack, the technique leverages a low-volume ...

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have caused their share of online chaos in the past, from being used to target messaging service Telegram during the Hong Kong unrest to crippling ...

But new research detailed Thursday at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas shows how a small, ... TurboVNC, has already made changes to protect against these types of DoS attacks.

Popular social-networking site Facebook was hit with a DoS (denial-of-service) attack Thursday, but the attack did not appear to be as severe as one that crippled Twitter the same day.

Higher; Security risks and precautions Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. While browsing the internet users can unwittingly download spyware, or become victims of phishing and keylogging software.

Microsoft’s main Web site was unreachable for almost two hours on Friday as the Web server it is hosted on failed following a DOS (denial of service) attack, the company said Friday. “I can ...

Well, guess what — when your staff writes horrendous code against your SQL box, they’re performing a coordinated DoS attack. It’s, in essence, an internal hacking situation, ...

Popular social-networking site Facebook was hit with a DoS (denial-of-service) attack Thursday, but the attack did not appear to be as severe as one that crippled Twitter the same day. Facebook ...