On March 10, X experienced multiple outages, with tens of thousands of users reporting the social site was down for them. Later that day, after multiple failures, X came back online. What caused this?

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate O’Flaherty is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist. Cloudflare has mitigated the biggest distributed denial of service ...

"A defender needs to be right every time, but an attacker only needs to be right once" is a well-worn saying among cybersecurity professionals. In other words, an intruder has unlimited time and ...

Internet services giant Cloudflare says it mitigated a record number of DDoS attacks in 2024, recording a massive 358% year-over-year jump and a 198% quarter-over-quarter increase. These figures come ...

Security experts have warned of an increase in hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks designed to overwhelm networks, after revealing the largest such effort to date peaked at 5.6 Terabits per second (Tbps).

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks come in many shapes and sizes, as do the myths surrounding them. These myths can center on motivations, DDoS attack vectors and techniques, mitigation ...

There is a "fundamental rewiring of the modern cyberattack" going on and AI is at the center.

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fastly, Inc. (NYSE: FSLY), a leader in global edge cloud platforms, has announced key updates to Fastly DDoS Protection that deliver unprecedented visibility into ...

Netscout research reports over 8 million DDoS attacks worldwide in H2 2025, with growing botnet activity, multi-vector attacks and rising use of AI in cyber threats.