Based on the nature and intent of the attack, several types of programs can be used to launch DoS attacks on your network. Take note of the below most commonly used DoS attacks: 1] SYN Flood.

DoS attacks are hard to characterize because what they have in common is their overall effect, not the technique by which they're carried out. DoS attacks can seek to flood a network with traffic ...

For three days, the hospital network's firewalls fell apart and its network slowed to a crawl. It was an agonizing stretch for "Cam Smith" (the anonymous IT engineer featured by CSO magazine ...

Attacks move up the OSI stack to the application layer and use organizations’ big bandwidth against them. Here’s how enterprises can improve their defenses.

A new denial-of-service attack dubbed 'Loop DoS' targeting application layer protocols can pair network services into an indefinite communication loop that creates large volumes of traffic.

Security Manager's Journal: Mathias is diverted by a competitor's complaint that his company is running a directed denial-of-service attack against it. Topics Spotlight: Building a Winning Team ...

Microsoft's main Web site was unreachable for almost two hours on Friday as the Web server it is hosted on failed following a denial of service attack, the company said Friday. Topics Spotlight ...

SYDNEY--Telstra cable users in Victoria and ADSL customers nationally suffered the repercussions of a denial of service attack last night, with services unavailable for up to four hours ...

U.S. antivirus software vendor Network Associates Inc. (NAI) was hit by a DoS (denial-of-service) attack late Wednesday, a company executive confirmed Thursday. Access to NAI’s Web site was ...

5G network slices are also vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks, CISA says, where an attacker jumps into the middle of an unencrypted conversation between two network participants.