The government is considering amending the Computer Misuse Act (CMA), amid concern within the Internet industry that denial of service (DoS) attacks may not be covered by the law. The Home Office, in ...

These types of DoS attacks have been around since the creation of the public Internet. A 15 year old named Mafiaboy famously brought down many of the top Websites of the day at the beginning of this ...

‘This might have disrupted businesses, but thanks to the efforts of AWS engineers our customers were quickly protected from this new attack,’ says AWS CEO Adam Selipsky. Amazon Web Services confirmed ...

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Will Hogan is vice president of marketing and sales at Idappcom, a British firm that specializes in the provision of tools to test the efficacy of IP filtering appliances. He has contributed an ...

According to new data released by Netscout, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are on the rise. There were 17 million such attacks in 2024 – up from 13 million the year before. It’s an ...

Denial-of-service (DoS) and distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have been around for so long that they might be considered old school compared with today’s sophisticated spear-phishing and ...

Mardi is a thought leader in Digital Journal’s Insight Forum (become a member). This article was co-authored by Lily Yao Cybersecurity is not just an IT issue anymore. It is a key part of running a ...