Distributed Attack. A distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack can employ hundreds or even thousands of computers that have been previously infected. The computers act as a network of "zombies ...

The next generation of denial-of-service attacks is out there, according to network security experts. And the zombies they can unleash are particularly insidious. By Michelle Delio.

The attack is "distributed" because the attacker is using multiple computers, including yours, to launch the denial-of-service attack. Like Zombies, once you're infected, you're part of the army.

You might be familiar with the term – Denial of Service but in reality, it can be difficult to distinguish between a real attack and normal network activity. Denial of Service (or DoS) attack ...

During the week of February 7-11, 2000, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks emerged as a major new way to wage cyber-war on the Internet. That week, such attacks struck many sites ...

The first job of a mitigation service is to be able to detect a DDoS attack and distinguish what's actually a malicious event from what's just a regular – if unusually high – volume of traffic.

Researchers have uncovered a botnet that uses compromised Web servers instead of the usual personal computers to launch denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Security firm Imperva said on Wednesday it ...

A large-scale distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) against New Hampshire-based Internet performance company Dyn caused major Internet disruptions Friday. Users were unable to access many ...

An apparently coordinated denial-of-service attack organized by pro-Russia hackers rendered the websites of some major U.S. airports unreachable early Monday, though officials said flights were not… ...

A sad and scary new record was set this past week, with the latest and biggest distributed denial-of-service attack.The network security provider Cloudflare Inc. posted on its blog today that it ...