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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 ...

It’s an astonishing rise that has big implications for your business. But what exactly is a DDoS attack? And how can I prevent it from happening to my business? In this guide, we’ve put ...

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 ...

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.

KrebsOnSecurity last week was hit by a near record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that clocked in at more than 6.3 terabits of data per second (a terabit is one trillion bits of data).

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.

Security experts have warned of an increase in hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks designed to overwhelm networks, after revealing the largest such effort to date peaked at 5.6 Terabits per second (Tbps).

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 ...

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 ...