News

• Twitter taken down by denial-of-service attack

  By Elizabeth Montalbano | 07 August, 2009 05:24

  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.

• Political cyberattacks to militarize the Web

  By Fred O'Connor | 13 March, 2009 02:51

  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.

• Porn site feud spawns new DNS attack

  By Robert McMillan | 06 February, 2009 08:17

  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 DoS attacks surging in scale, ISPs report

  By Ellen Messmer | 12 November, 2008 08:29

  Massive distributed denial-of-service attacks against ISPs and their customers doubled in intensity over the past year, according to a new survey.

• ITU plan to stop DoS attacks could end Net anonymity too

  By Peter Sayer | 15 September, 2008 08:40

  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.

• Japan tops world in attack traffic, Akamai reports

  By Brad Reed | 10 September, 2008 08:38

  What Japan lacks in geographic size, it more than makes up for in Internet attack traffic.