Austin Thompson could get up to a decade in prison for DDoS attacks against Sonly Online Entertainment and other sites.

It's becoming trendy for private companies to volunteer their services for the sake of election security. Will they help beyond 2018?

The very first cyberattack clogged up the nascent internet, halting digital communications. Now much bigger, the internet is still largely open to – and suffering regularly from – similar attacks.

Paras Jha is one of the masterminds behind the Mirari botnet, which has been used in several large-scale attacks.

The DDoS attack is a reminder of the prevalence of this blunt attack method and of a growing security market for defenses against it.

A lot of companies are offering to help protect election infrastructure. Here's a full list.