Pankaj Gupta, Senior Director at Citrix, outlines how distributed denial of service attacks have become increasingly sophisticated, bigger and economically motivated. Distributed denial of service ...

At most any time of the day, there's a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack underway somewhere on the Internet. Yes, it's still true, despite reports that some ISPs have experienced fewer DDOS ...

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 ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Last week, eager Christmas celebrators across the world hooked up their brand new Xboxes and PlayStations only to find that both online networks were ...

Hackers use sophisticated tactics to overwhelm networks, both as tools of protests and as ruses to distract from serious crimes “It’s no longer hidden. It’s very, very public, it’s well known,” said ...

In a series of recent articles, I’ve compared a company’s need for a cybersecurity portfolio to an individual’s investment portfolio. The same rules apply to both, with the wisest strategy being a ...

Distributed denial-of-service attacks can paralyze even the most well-structured network for days, costing millions of dollars in lost sales, freezing online services and crippling a company’s ...

Have you ever been in the middle of an online gaming session, when all of a sudden, your connection dropped? Of course, this usually tends to happen at the worst time ever, such as right in the middle ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Illustration from Shutterstock.com Never heard of a DDoS attack? Small companies that do business online ought to learn about this ...