Causal attribution for one of the largest disasters in American history has undergone three major shifts. From August 2005 through November 2009, the principal explanation of the flooding of New Orleans was characterized by three distinguishable phases - reactive, organizational, and legal - as the ...
Meanwhile in 1938 the northern lights were so strong over London that guards called the fire engines thinking Windsor castle was alight. One of the largest storms on record occurred in 1859, with a coronal mass ejection impact holding such a punch that early telegraph communications were for the...
The first type of flooding we will explore is river flooding. What is River Flooding? A river flood occurs when water levels rise over the top of river banks. This flooding can happen in all river and stream channels. This includes everything from small streams to the world’s largest ...
Bots have been wreaking havoc since the 1990s. One of the first attacks occurred in 1996, when Panix, a NY-based internet service provider (ISP), was knocked offline for several days by aSYN flood attack. This DDoS attack overwhelmed the ISP's servers, preventing them from processing. Other...
President Joe Biden approved an emergency declaration for Florida, and US Representative Kathy Castor said 7,000 federal workers were on hand to help in one of the largest mobilisations of federal personnel in history. "This is the real deal here with Milton...
SYN flood.This attack abuses the TCP handshake protocol the client uses to establish a TCP connection with a server. In a SYN flood attack, the attacker directs a high-volume stream of requests to open TCP connections with the victim server with no intention of completing the circuits. A ...
The River Thames has played an important in the history of England. The Roman's built one of the earliest bridges to cross the river circa 2,000 years ago, there are over 100 types of fish that call it home, and it is sometimes called the 'Dead River' because of the number of ...
water on the surface of Earth. In the mid-20th century the surface level of the lake was ...
It might be the most impressive U.S. public works projects ever. We're talking about the Hoover Dam, the largest man-made reservoir and a feat of American engineering. It holds back45,000 pounds per square footof maximum water pressure at the base of the dam. But have you ever wondered...
Medical data.(Also called PHI or personal health information) This covers your medical history, prescriptions, biometric data (including fingerprints and images of your face), test results, billing information, and other sensitive details. In the wrong hands, this can culminate in medical or even...