Internet security experts say that misconfigured DSL and cable modems are worsening a well-known problem with the Internet’s DNS (domain name system), making it easier for hackers to launch ...

15% increase in DDoS attacks in second half of 2023 vs the first half 2023, totaling over 7 million attacks 10x rise in daily hacktivist DDoS attacks between the first half and second half of 2023 553 ...

A scrap between two pornographic Web sites turned nasty when one figured out how to take down the other by exploiting a previously unknown quirk in the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS). The attack ...

No it's not a summary of some new action movie or war documentary. Carpet-bombing and DNS water torture attacks are among the biggest trends in 2023 for distributed denial of service (DDoS), according ...

Cybercriminals are now using techniques to launch distributed denial of service attacks once only available to nation-state threat actors. The last few months have seen an increase in the number of ...

A type of distributed denial-of-service attack, DNS amplification, has risen sharply, according to new research from Symantec. The security vendor said it saw a 183 percent increase in DNS (Domain ...

Attacks related to Domain Name System infrastructure – such as DNS hijacking, DNS tunneling and DNS amplification attacks – are on the rise, and many IT organizations are questioning the security of ...

Cyber crooks have remained unrelenting in launching attacks on the telecoms sector, it was gathered at the weekend. Specifically, Distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks are getting bigger, with ...

Third annual study by The Measurement Factory, sponsored by DNS management vendor Infoblox, shares the bad news that many servers remain vulnerable to pharming and other attacks. More than half of ...