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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.

What is DoS or Denial of Service attack? How can it affect your Network? How to stop or prevent DoS attacks from happening? We answer it all in this post.

Then they realize that the site is victim of a major denial-of-service attack. The techies try to capture a sample of the packets flying over the network, attempting to gather as many as they can.

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 ...

What is a DDoS attack? A distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) sees an attacker flooding the network or servers of the victim with a wave of internet traffic so big that their ...

It is a form of what is known as a "denial-of-service" (DoS) attack. Such DoS onslaughts date back to the 1990s. They show no sign of abating, even as techniques to thwart them have improved.

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 ...