"A defender needs to be right every time, but an attacker only needs to be right once" is a well-worn saying among cybersecurity professionals. In other words, an intruder has unlimited time and ...

As the internet has become more accessible over the years, bad actors around the world have found it easier to use it to commit crimes and harass others. That's unfortunate — as much as the internet ...

Millions of individuals worldwide spend countless hours each year engaged in online gaming, propelling the industry’s growth in recent years. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) assaults, in ...

On March 10, X experienced multiple outages, with tens of thousands of users reporting the social site was down for them. Later that day, after multiple failures, X came back online. What caused this?

In the security profession, controls are one of the main tools we use to reduce risk. In doing so, we leverage a mix of preventive and detective controls. As the name suggests, preventive controls are ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate O’Flaherty is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist. Cloudflare has mitigated the biggest distributed denial of service ...

How to stop the DDoS of things from taking you down DDoS attacks have introduced Mirai malware that help hackers compromise unsecured IoT devices to scale their DDoS attacks up to 1 Tbps. In this ...

In 2016, hackers using a network of compromised internet-connected devices — vulnerable security cameras and routers — knocked some of the then biggest websites on the internet offline for several ...

Large-scale attacks designed to bring down Internet services by sending them more traffic than they can process keep getting bigger, with the largest one yet, measured at 7.3 terabits per second, ...