Both sites have lately become attractive targets for online crooks who try to trick users into installing malware on their PCs
Twitter and Facebook were hit today with denial-of-service attacks that can knock a site offline, but don't steal information or cause permanent damage. The question is, why?
The popular micro-blogging site was unavailable Thursday as the company defended itself against the attack
The Twitter micro-blogging and social networking service was hit with a denial-of-service attack Thursday morning that has rendered the site unavailable for users.
The Internet will become a battleground as governments and opposition groups look to use DDOS attacks for political gains, a security researcher said.
Governments looking to silence critics and stymie opposition have added DDOS (distributed denial of service) attacks to their censoring methods, according to a security expert speaking at the Source Boston Security Showcase.
Botnet operators are adding code to launch a new type of distributed denial of service attack, security experts warn.
A scrap between two pornographic Web sites turned nasty when one figured out how to take down the other by exploiting a previously unknown quirk in the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS).
Distributed denial-of-service attacks getting more powerful, according to Arbor Networks’ annual survey of ISPs
Massive distributed denial-of-service attacks against ISPs and their customers doubled in intensity over the past year, according to a new survey.
Civil rights advocates are concerned that ITU plans to limit DoS attacks by making it harder to spoof IP traffic could put an end to anonymity on the Internet.
Finding ways to limit DoS attacks and SMS spam by making it harder to spoof the origin of electronic communications is on the agenda at a telecommunications standards meeting this week -- but civil rights advocates worry it could put an end to anonymity on the Internet.
Country accounts for 30 percent of all attack traffic in second quarter
What Japan lacks in geographic size, it more than makes up for in Internet attack traffic.
