Facebook and Instagram outage drags on for hours as social media giant denies DDoS attack You know it’s a rough day when Facebook has to use Twitter to let users know that Facebook and Instagram… Read More
What are memcached servers, and why are they being used to launch record-setting DDoS attacks? Two of the largest distributed denial-of-service attacks ever recorded on the internet have been launched over the last seven days,… Read More
The largest DDoS attack yet recorded staggered Github on Wednesday Web companies are starting to get pretty good at deflecting denial of service attacks, and Github and Akamai largely fended… Read More
Tech executives explain how cyberattacks took down Amazon, Twitter, Reddit and more DNS host Dyn is continuing to deal with issues caused by a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks Friday… Read More
Coping with the Twitter outage: A photo diary UPDATE: Twitter is back and all is right with the world. TWITTER IS BACK. #bless — Monica Nickelsburg (@mnickelsburg) October… Read More
Online attacks cause outages for Twitter, Amazon, Spotify, other major websites Several major websites, including Amazon, Twitter, Spotify, Reddit, and more, were knocked out early Friday after apparent distributed denial of… Read More
