Tag: DDoS

March 15, 2017

With the onrush of connected internet of things (IoT) devices, distributed denial-of-service attacks are becoming a dangerous trend. Similar to what happened to DNS service provider Dyn last fall, anyone and everyone is in the crosshairs. The idea of using […]

January 5, 2017

The closure of a major online marketplace for paid distributed denial-of-service attacks appears to have done little to slow down the illegal activity. In late October, HackForums.net shut down its “Server Stress Testing” section, amid concerns that hackers were peddling […]

December 13, 2016

Law enforcement agencies arrested 34 suspects in 13 countries, including the U.K and the U.S., as part of a crackdown last week on DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks. The arrests targeted buyers of DDoS-for-hire services, which get paid to flood websites […]

November 16, 2016

The massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack last month on Dyn, the New Hampshire-based Domain Name System (DNS) provider, was mostly an inconvenience. While it took down a portion of the internet for several hours, disrupted dozens of major […]

October 25, 2016

The Friday cybersecurity attack using connected devices, or the Internet of Things, was serious, unusual and even historic. It also is a taste of the disruptions to come, say security experts. The attack, which affected a number of major Web […]