Forbes

Is Your Cloud Environment Vulnerable To ‘Denial Of Funds’ Attacks?

Denial-of-service (DoS) and distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have been around for so long that they might be considered old school compared with today’s sophisticated spear-phishing and ...
CRN

Mydoom DoS Attack On Microsoft Falters

Unlike The SCO Group's Web site -- which was brought down by the original Mydoom worm, dubbed Mydoom.a -- Microsoft's site remains up and running. SCO removed its original site from the Internet's ...
InfoWorld

Researcher devises hard-to-detect DoS attack against HTTP servers

Qualys software engineer devises a new type of slow read HTTP denial-of-service attack and releases a tool to test it Qualys senior software engineer Sergey Shekyan has devised a new HTTP ...
Dark Reading

300K Internet Hosts at Risk for 'Devastating' Loop DoS Attack

A newly discovered type of self-perpetuating denial-of-service (DoS) attack targeting application-layer messages has the potential to compromise 300,000 Internet hosts and can be difficult to stop ...
CSOonline

BlackNurse attack: 1 laptop can DoS some firewalls, bring down big servers

Researchers warned that a low-volume BlackNurse DoS attack launched via a single laptop can bring some firewalls to their knees An attacker doesn’t need an IoT botnet or massive resources for a denial ...
CSOonline

FBI and CISA warn government systems against increased DDoS attacks

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the FBI, and the multistate information sharing, and analysis center (MS-ISAC) have, in a joint effort, released an advisory to defend ...