Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are designed to knock a website offline by flooding it with huge amounts of requests until it crashes. Amazon Web Services (AWS) said the February ...
The New Zealand stock exchange was knocked offline two days in a row due to a cyber-attack. NZX said it had first been hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack from abroad, on Tuesday.
Amazon Web Services confirmed it was hit with a new type of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that flooded websites and applications with over 155 million requests per second.