The primary threat to Internet services is the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. DDoS attacks have evolved over the last twenty years from a nuisance to a serious risk to governments and corporation continuity. They have also gone from … [Read more...] about A Brief Timeline of DDoS Attacks
What is a DoS Attack?
A DoS attack (denial-of-service) is a deliberate targeting of your computer and its network connection, or the computers and network of the sites you are trying to access, effectively denying you service. This can take down websites, email, online … [Read more...] about What is a DoS Attack?
Why Do People Perform DDoS Attacks?
Last September, independent journalist Brian Krebs found himself the victim of a record-breaking digital attack when a huge amount of junk traffic (between 600-700Gbps) took his website, KrebsonSecurity.com offline. Ironically, Krebs is a digital … [Read more...] about Why Do People Perform DDoS Attacks?