The FBI has warned that telephony denial-of-service attacks are taking aim at emergency dispatch centers, which could make it impossible to call for police, fire or ambulance services. Telephony ...

When an ICU nurse refused to pay scammers who insisted she owed money for a payday loan, they unleashed a robo-dial flood of hundreds of calls per hour that ultimately shut down the phone system of ...

S&T said, “A TDoS attack can be an ‘old-school’ attack, in which the victim is flooded with calls from a group of people using mobile or landline phones. These type of attacks often are coordinated ...

As if emergency responders weren’t already overloaded: Increasingly, extortionists are launching debilitating attacks designed to overwhelm the telephone networks of emergency communications centers ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Officials now know what caused technical difficulties to plague police departments across Central Texas. Multiple counties experienced disruptions to their 911 call lines on Sunday, ...

Just because an attack is bizarre doesn’t mean it isn’t dangerous. According to security researcher Brian Krebs (pictured), the FBI and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) posted a security bulletin ...

Emergency-service providers and other organizations are being targeted with TDoS (telephony denial of service) attacks, according to a security alert from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and ...