Report: DDoS Attacks On the Rise in 2011

Distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks are on the rise, according to a report released by Trustwave this week. The company’s semi-annual Web Hacking Incident Database WHID report found the attacks jumped 22 percent from the first half of 2010, overtaking methods such as SQL injections and...

Lessons From the WikiLeaks DDoS Attacks

Denial of Service DoS attacks are a common method used to take down Websites, servers, or even sections of the Internet. These attacks typically come in two forms: Distributed DoS DDos and DoS attacks. DDoS create a flood of traffic to a Website, server, or section of the internet that overwhelms...