The modern hacker has a huge toolset at their fingertips, and it's only getting bigger by the day. Many of these tactics, techniques, and procedures are on the cutting edge, but there are old ...

A hacking group stirred outrage online for carrying out a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against the Internet Archive. The group, known as SN_Blackmeta, revealed in a post to X on ...

Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 13, 2024 "There appears to be a massive DDOS attack on X. Working on shutting it down," he said in a post on the social media platform. More From Newsweek Vault ...

The internet intelligence team at Cisco's ThousandEyes tells WIRED in a statement, “During the disruptions, ThousandEyes observed network conditions that are characteristic of a DDoS attack ...

This may also require setting aside a few misconceptions. DDoS attacks are typically associated with large traffic volumes and a popular notion is that the larger the attack, the more potent it is.

Mitigating DDoS attacks requires the ability to process incoming attack volume and sort harmful traffic from legitimate. Because the cost of doing so is just too large for enterprises to bear ...

The largest DDoS attack during the period was measured at 5.6 terabits per second, but has already been overtaken by an attack on April 24th that was measured at 5.8 terabits per second.

Jason Scott, an archivist and software curator at the Internet Archive, said the site was experiencing a DDoS attack, posting on Mastodon that “according to their twitter, they’re doing it ...

The site was also hit with a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that have taken archive.org and openlibrary.org offline. As of Tuesday, both sites remained offline. Internet ...

Government websites were the most common targets, with DDoS traffic spiking during elections. France, for example, faced an intensive and unprecedented attack during its elections in March. The next ...

According to security researcher Troy Hunt, the DDoS attack came just as the Internet Archive was preparing to disclose a previous breach of its site that resulted in the theft of more than 31 ...