The Department of Homeland Security is funding new research to counter a type of cyberattack that brought down Twitter, PayPal and other websites last year.
The attacks, known as distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, work when hackers send a massive amount of web traffic to a site, rendering it unable to function. DHS’s Science and Technology Directorate announced Thursday that its cybersecurity division is funding several research projects to counter these attacks.
