Articles about DDoS

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. https://twitter.com/mnickelsburg/status/789564281276600320 In the wise words of Joni Mitchell, “you… 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