denial-of-service

Italian police said they suspect some 20 people, five of whom are ages 16 or 17, are behind so-called denial-of-service attacks, in which websites are bombarded with data with the aim of knocking them offline.

Authorities in Europe Extend Probe of Hackers Cassell Bryan-Low 2011

A so-called denial-of-service attack, which floods a website's servers with enormous amounts of webpage requests is a popular hacking activity.

Jihadist web forum knocked off Internet 2011

Mr. Putin's spokesman said it was too early to comment on the hacked material or Kommersant's complaint but called a denial-of-service attack "illegal and very bad."

Hacking Blamed on Pro-Kremlin Youth Alan Cullison 2012

The U.S.-funded vote-monitoring group Golos was buffeted by a so-called denial-of-service attack the day before the vote, as two of the group's sites were saturated by requests from computers trying to log on.

Web Problems Plague Russia Critics Alan Cullison 2011

Those attacks included break-ins into computer networks and so-called denial-of-service attacks, in which website servers are bombarded with data with the aim of knocking them offline, the police said.

U.K. Detains Hacking Suspect Cassell Bryan-Low 2011

Outside security experts said they thought the problems and the bank's response seemed to bear the hallmarks of a so-called denial-of-service attack, a maneuver that attempts to overwhelm a target's servers with a flood of data traffic.

BofA Says Website Access Problems Solved David Benoit 2011

Authorities in the U.S., the U.K. and elsewhere are probing Anonymous and offshoot groups, including LulzSec, in relation to so-called denial-of-service attacks, in which websites are bombarded with data with the aim of knocking them offline.

Two More Charged in Probe of Cyber-Attacks Cassell Bryan-Low 2011

Authorities in the U.S., the U.K. and elsewhere are probing Anonymous and offshoot groups, including LulzSec, in relation to so-called denial-of-service attacks, in which websites are bombarded with data with the aim of knocking them offline.

Internet Attacks Yield Arrests Cassell Bryan-Low 2011

PayPal, Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. all suffered so-called denial-of-service attacks, for which Anonymous took credit, after they stopped people from using their services to make financial contributions to Wikileaks.

U.K. Arrests Another Teen in Crackdown on Hackers Cassell Bryan-Low 2011

Those attacks included break-ins into computer networks and so-called denial-of-service attacks, in which website servers are bombarded with data with the aim of knocking them offline, the police said.

U.K. Charges Man in Cybercrime Case Cassell Bryan-Low 2011