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?

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According to new data released by Netscout, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are on the rise. There were 17 million such attacks in 2024 – up from 13 million the year before. It’s an ...

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A group of hacktivists have claimed responsibility for a distributed denial-of-service attack, which has affected several ...

Arch Linux site hit by DDoS on Christmas; unreachable for IPv4 users. Site accessible via IPv6—enable IPv6 to reach archlinux.org now. Arch wiki and docs still up—use them while the main site is under ...

A DDoS mitigation service provider in Europe was targeted in a massive distributed denial-of-service attack that reached 1.5 billion packets per second. The attack originated from thousands of IoTs ...

A severe Linux kernel vulnerability, dubbed 'Copy Fail', has been disclosed, affecting most distributions since 2017 and allowing instant root access for local users. The revelation coincides with a ...