Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Denial-of-service (DoS) and distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have been around ...
Tuesday, May 22, started out as just another day at CERT Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. By day's end, CERT, widely regarded as the Fort Knox of computer security, ...
Unlike The SCO Group's Web site -- which was brought down by the original Mydoom worm, dubbed Mydoom.a -- Microsoft's site remains up and running. SCO removed its original site from the Internet's ...
Researchers warned that a low-volume BlackNurse DoS attack launched via a single laptop can bring some firewalls to their knees An attacker doesn’t need an IoT botnet or massive resources for a denial ...
A newly discovered type of self-perpetuating denial-of-service (DoS) attack targeting application-layer messages has the potential to compromise 300,000 Internet hosts and can be difficult to stop ...
The SANS Institute recently released an updated version of its Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors. One of the most overlooked secure programming principles, "allocation of resources without ...
Popular social-networking site Facebook was hit with a DoS (denial-of-service) attack Thursday, but the attack did not appear to be as severe as one that crippled Twitter the same day. Facebook ...