Recent versions of Orbit Downloader, a popular Windows program for downloading embedded media content and other types of files from websites, turns computers into bots and uses them to launch ...

For a small fee, starting at about $50 a month, a DDoS-for-hire “booter” website will offer an impressive menu of options. Hit an enterprise or gaming server or go after a service provider – right ...

On Wednesday, at about 12:15 pm EST, 1.35 terabits per second of traffic hit the developer platform GitHub all at once. It was the most powerful distributed denial of service attack recorded to ...

A record-breaking 37.4 terabyte DDoS attack targeted a single IP address. CloudFlare successfully blocked the colossal attack aiming to flood the target. The attack equates to downloading 9,350 HD ...

The social network X suffered intermittent outages on Monday, a situation owner Elon Musk attributed to a “massive cyberattack.” Musk said in an initial X post that the attack was perpetrated by ...

IP Converge Data Center Inc. (IP-Converge), the information technology and telecommunications division of listed company IPVG Corp., takes its campaign against distributed denial of service (DDoS) a ...

F5 is touting new capabilities in its BIG-IP v11 software as a way for service providers to save money, stave off and scale to support rapidly expanding IP services. DNS services running on F5 Global ...

Microsoft has revealed that it stopped what it described as the largest distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack ever reported in history in November, which at 3.47 terabytes (Tbps) per second ...

When exchanging data via the Internet, by notifying the sender's IP address in the header, you can let the other party know the reply destination. However, since the sender can freely describe the IP ...