The government is considering amending the Computer Misuse Act (CMA), amid concern within the Internet industry that denial of service (DoS) attacks may not be covered by the law. The Home Office, in ...

These types of DoS attacks have been around since the creation of the public Internet. A 15 year old named Mafiaboy famously brought down many of the top Websites of the day at the beginning of this ...

We live in a world where digitization, automation, and connectivity have become the heart of every organization, business, infrastructure, state, and country. Digital Transformation has been playing a ...

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 ...

‘This might have disrupted businesses, but thanks to the efforts of AWS engineers our customers were quickly protected from this new attack,’ says AWS CEO Adam Selipsky. Amazon Web Services confirmed ...

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have disrupted state websites, digital court services and more this year. Now, federal agencies are calling all levels of government to heed the threat and ...

Mardi is a thought leader in Digital Journal’s Insight Forum (become a member). This article was co-authored by Lily Yao Cybersecurity is not just an IT issue anymore. It is a key part of running a ...

A pair of attacks revealed by researchers this year underscored the fragility of the Domain Name System (DNS) and the security extensions (DNSSEC) that were adopted to help secure the world's internet ...

The headline was clear and scary. "Cyberattack Hits Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts." Yes, another attack on the courts. The attack disabled online docket sheets and the electronic case ...

Will Hogan is vice president of marketing and sales at Idappcom, a British firm that specializes in the provision of tools to test the efficacy of IP filtering appliances. He has contributed an ...

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 ...

Small businesses spend 13.2% of IT budgets on cybersecurity. Experts suggest focusing on employee training, MFA,and practical defenses over costly tech.