A DDoS attack that launched 29.7 Tbps was just thwarted by Cloudflare, and its the biggest DDoS attack in history

The Aisuru botnet, a network of compromised and malicious Internet of Things (IoT) devices, has mounted a record-breaking ...

Aisuru botnet behind new record-breaking 29.7 Tbps DDoS attack

In just three months, the massive Aisuru botnet launched more than 1,300 distributed denial-of-service attacks, one of them ...
The Register on MSN

Botnet takes advantage of AWS outage to smack 28 countries

Even worse, it might have been a 'test run' for future attacks A Mirai-based botnet named ShadowV2 emerged during last ...
Computerworld

No easy defense vs. denial-of-service attacks

A year after distributed denial-of-service attacks blasted the likes of Yahoo Inc., eBay Inc. and ETrade Group Inc. off-line, no one has found an easy way to defend against a flood of unwanted ...
SiliconANGLE

Cloudflare reports 50% first-quarter increase in distributed denial-of-service attacks

A new report from content delivery network provider Cloudflare Inc. today details a disturbing rise in distributed denial-of-service attacks in the first quarter, including a surge of attacks against ...
WUSA

Metro experiences cybersecurity attack, website shut down for hours

WASHINGTON — The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is investigating a cyber security attack against Metro. WMATA released a statement on Tuesday stating that the company experienced a ...
The Pantagraph

Tech 101: How a denial-of-service cyber attack works

A: People try denial-of-service attacks all the time - many government and private sites report being hit every day. Often the assaults are unsuccessful, because Web sites have ways of identifying and ...
Network World

Major ‘Net backbone attack could be first of many

The distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack launched Monday against all 13 of the Internet domain name system (DNS) root servers failed to bring down the Internet, but that doesn’t mean that more ...