Have you ever felt an unusual slowness in your network speed or unexpected unavailability of a certain website? Chances could be that there could be a Denial of Service attack in progress. You might ...

This blunt and sobering statement comes from a team of researchers who recently explored the threat landscape populated by denial-of-service (DoS) attacks worldwide. What they report finding is ...

And what they found is, in a phrase from their study, "an eye-opening statistic." Spanning two years, from March 2015 to February 2017, the researchers found that about one-third of the IPv4 address ...

Conventional wisdom about the sources and causes of denial-of-service (DOS) attacks -- and the best methods for preventing them -- could be completely wrong, a group of researchers said this week.

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 ...

A multifaceted defense is the only way to minimize damage. Application switches (or level 7 switches) are devices that help defend against denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Security is one of those ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. DoS and DDoS attacks overwhelm networks with ...