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.

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 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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are accelerating around the globe. ... Requires fewer “zombie” or compromised computers to accomplish the same task as a volumetric DDoS attack.

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.

Attackers briefly knocked the website for the foundation behind the popular Raspberry Pi offline with a distributed denial of service attack late Tuesday. "We're being DDoS'd at the moment—very ...

Antispam community sites that help combat phishing scams and spam are being targeted with denial of service attacks by malware botnets presumably operated by spammers. The trend was reported last ...

A denial of service (DoS) attack is an attack strategy in which a malicious actor attempts to prevent others from accessing a web server, web application, or cloud service by flooding it with ...