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On March 10, X experienced multiple outages, with tens of thousands of users reporting the social site was down for them. Later that day, after multiple failures, X came back online. What caused this?

The FIANNCIAL — Its name may not be very well known, but it is one of the most important companies on the global internet. Cloudflare suffered a major outage on Tuesday, November 18, causing ...

The average attack time for most common DDoS attacks – those which registered between 100 and 500Gbps - is just over ten hours. However, the most powerful DDoS now appear to be designed to hit hard ...

Gcore, the global edge AI, cloud, network, and security solutions provider, today announced the findings of its Q1-Q2 2025 Radar report into DDoS attack trends. DDoS attacks have reached unprecedented ...

Primary driver of DDoS activity remains geopolitical and ideological conflictAI-Driven Bot Attacks Accelerate Worldwide MAHWAH, N.J., ...

Internet services giant Cloudflare says it mitigated a record number of DDoS attacks in 2024, recording a massive 358% year-over-year jump and a 198% quarter-over-quarter increase. These figures come ...

C-suite executives need to ensure their enterprises are protected against the wide-ranging effects of supercharged distributed denial of service attacks. Every year, distributed denial of service ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate O’Flaherty is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist. Cloudflare has mitigated the biggest distributed denial of service ...

One day after X went down for hours, security researchers are throwing cold water on Elon Musk’s public comments about who might be behind the DDoS attack. On Monday, as X was still struggling to ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DataDome, the leader in cyberfraud protection, today unveiled DDoS Protect, a cloud-based service designed to block distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack traffic at ...

Gcore, the edge AI, cloud, network, and security solutions provider, has announced the findings of its Q1-Q2 2025 Radar report into DDoS attack trends. DDoS attacks have reached unprecedented scale ...