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

Portsmouth City Council said it had been hit by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack by a group named NoName057(16).

Exeter City Council was among a group of local authorities attacked by cyber hackers, the group has claimed. Other locals ...

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

Middlesbrough Council interim Chief Executive Clive Heaphy has reassured residents that no personal data was compromised ...

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

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 ...

Burnley Council’s website, temporarily disrupted due to a cyber attack, has now been successfully restored with no data compromised. The council confirmed it had been the victim of a Distributed ...

Access to court websites nationwide was temporarily suspended on Thursday afternoon, due to a suspected distributed denial-of ...

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 ...