Graphic shows the security risks the Internet of Things faces, and how hackers can launch a DDoS attack. Graphic shows the security risks the Internet of Things faces, and how hackers can launch a ...

In a DoS attack, the attacker sends a flood of superfluous requests to the website’s main server, which basically overloads it and blocks out any further requests before the capacity is retained.

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DoS attacks that took down big game sites abused Web’s time-sync protocol Never-before-seen technique abused the Network Time Protocol to worsen effects.

New DoS attack directed at Healthcare.gov Healthcare.gov can't catch a break. Written by Rachel King, Contributor Nov. 7, 2013 at 10:12 a.m. PT. Read this.

All three said the attack began in late August; and Google confirmed it was ongoing, according to Reuters. The biggest-ever DoS attack was enabled by HTTP/2 ...

A new denial-of-service attack dubbed 'Loop DoS' targeting application layer protocols can pair network services into an indefinite communication loop that creates large volumes of traffic.

For three days, the hospital network's firewalls fell apart and its network slowed to a crawl. It was an agonizing stretch for "Cam Smith" (the anonymous IT engineer featured by CSO magazine ...

DDoS attacks are most always bigger than a DoS attack because the strength of the attack can be multiplied by a huge amount of computers. > Continue reading on QuickAndDirtyTips.com.

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 ...