Every time you load a webpage, send an email, or stream a video, the Domain Name System (DNS) silently performs its critical duty, translating easy-to-read names into complex numerical IP addresses.

You might have heard of DoS and DDoS. The idea behind such an attack is to bring down the servers of any organization, thereby not allowing them to provide service to its users. Usually, the main ...

Security company Qualys is offering a tool admins can use to work out how vulnerable their servers might be to simple but often hard-to-detect a types of DDoS attack that exploit vulnerabilities in ...

Distributed denial of service is a type of DoS attack where multiple compromised systems, which are often joined with a Trojan, are used to target a single system causing an attack. The DDoS attack ...

Is Overwatch down again? Since Blizzard's multiplayer shooter Overwatch relies on the internet and servers and all sorts of other complicated technology, things are bound to go haywire from time to ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. A new type of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack ...

Plex patches media server bug potentially exploited by DDoS attackers Your email has been sent All users of Plex Media Server are urged to apply the hotfix, which directs their servers to respond to ...