February 10, 2000One by one, leading sites on the Web have been brought to their knees by so-called denial of service attacks. CNET News.com shows you how such attacks work and how companies can prevent them.TAGS:denial of service, attack, Web server, filter, request, server, connection
May 3, 2005A U.K. police chief has been bombarded with thousands of threatening e-mails in a denial-of-service attack aimed at crippling his force's computer systems.TAGS:computer system, U.K., force, denial of service, e-mail
January 18, 2006Popular pixel ad site comes under DoS attack from hackers who are demanding a ransom to stop, site's owner says.TAGS:Alex Tew, ransom, denial of service