Updated May 16, 2019   A Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack is an attack that involves a series of connected online devices (commonly referred to as botnets), that are used to overwhelm a target website, server or other network or system resources with fake traffic. The attack causes a denial of service for users of the […]

Just like Halloween costumes that may have showed up on your doorstep this week, the top frights each year for system administrators are a combination of classics and newer threats. For the Halloween 2017 season, one of the scariest things in IT security is ransomware, whose attacks have increased in frequency, effectiveness, and in the […]