Denial of service close Denial of Service (DoS) AttackA denial-of-service (DoS) is any type of attack where the attackers (hackers) attempt to prevent legitimate users from accessing the service.

Musk’s claim that X was hit by a series of DDoS attacks is not substantiated, but he said the company was tracing the origin of the attacks.

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.

Security professionals and X users have pushed back against Musk’s assertion Monday that a DDoS attack on X originated in Ukraine.

Regarding the DoS problem, administrators are encouraged to enforce strict connection rate limits and monitor SSH traffic for abnormal patterns to stop potential attacks early. More technical ...