A large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack targeted the official websites of South Korea's Ministry of ...

A local authority has been the target of a cyber attack for the second time in a week. Middlesbrough Council's website was ...

# The Central Bank yesterday said it is preparing for all possibilities after successfully fighting off a cyber attack last week.

What is a DDoS attack? A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack is when an attacker, or attackers, attempt to make it impossible for a digital service to be delivered. This could be sending a ...

The Justice Department's decision to level a criminal charge against Ahmed Omer that could lead to a life sentence for a denial-of-service attack may seem haphazard, given that state-sponsored ...

It is not a genuine attempt to engage in dialogue, it is a denial of service attack against it. There are some known unknowns, aspects or consequences of changes that we are aware of but uncertain how ...

The first breach occurred on October 9 involving a dual attack — a data breach and a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. Hackers took advantage of a previously exposed GitLab token ...

"The intention of a DDOS attack – which is a 'distributed denial of service' attack – is basically to crash your site," said Gabriel Sterling, the secretary of state's chief operating officer.

Portsmouth City Council has become the latest local authority to be hit by a cyber attack. The unitary council said it was ...

Earlier Zakharova said that the ministry had been targeted by a large-scale distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS). "A massive cyberattack from abroad began this morning on the infrastructure ...

Sterling said internet security firm Cloudflare sent an indication within minutes that it was a denial-of-service attack, which involves flooding a site with data in order to overwhelm it and ...