Online retailers are looking forward to a very merry holiday season as digital sales are expected to increase 25 percent this year. Some sellers may miss out of profits, however: Using distributed ...

Will Hogan is vice president of marketing and sales at Idappcom, a British firm that specializes in the provision of tools to test the efficacy of IP filtering appliances. He has contributed an ...

I am sure all of you know its meaning. For those new to the term, it is “distributed” Denial of Service – caused by the way too many requests to the server than it can handle. When unable to process ...

Can you explain how to stop a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack once it has been initiated? What is the best way to resolve the threat, and if possible, find who initiated it? What are the ...

Computer researchers in Europe are developing a new prototype architecture for halting distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks, where a barrage of traffic is directed at a Web site or server to ...

Dependability is crucial to any business. Customers come to organizations with the expectation that products and services will be delivered on time. This is perhaps nowhere more critical than at ...

Security expert Cricket Liu lays out the workings of a DNS-based DDoS attack -- and how to prevent one from hitting your company There’s no disputing that DNS is a critical component of computer ...

Dealing with a distributed denial-of-service attack such as the one that took down The SCO Group Inc.’s Web site this week continues to be a major challenge for companies, security experts said. But ...