5G telecommunications and its associated infrastructure will leverage highly distributed, virtualized and software-defined networks. This approach will improve service delivery, reduce backbone ...

In the Web world, distributed denial-of-service attacks can take out entire sites rather quickly. Mitigating the risk should be top of mind when building network architecture. Dave Rosenberg has more ...

DDoS attacks dominate the news nowadays. Large companies are frequently harassed by Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, with great damage. Prolexic, a company that offers security services ...

UK teenager Adam Mudd has been sentenced to jail for two years after devising a software used to penetrate and hack high-profile companies such as Sony and Microsoft. Hacker Sentenced To Two Years In ...

Most experts say it's a matter of when, not if. Here's how to make sure the next outage doesn't totally wreck your day. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features ...

A new way to amplify distributed denial-of-service attacks ended up harassing Github on Wednesday. The ensuing DDoS attack generated a flood of internet traffic that peaked at 1.35 Terabits per second ...

New releases in the online gaming industry are highly anticipated events. Millions of gamers anxiously waiting to leap onto a shiny new game service is an irresistible target for hackers—with bragging ...

Microsoft's Azure successfully defended against the largest cloud DDoS attack ever recorded, peaking at 15.72 Tbps and nearly ...

A hole has been found in software used by critical national infrastructure organisations including oil, gas and power companies that could lead to a successful denial-of-service attack. The ...

The provider of an open-source hosting panel software admitted yesterday to a security breach during which an unknown hacker contaminated the project's source code with malware that logs passwords, ...