Mumsnet Seeks to Boost Security after Spate of Attacks

Popular parenting website Mumsnet suffered a fresh wave of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks this week, prompting the site to take further steps to improve its security. After both cyber and swatting attacks against the site and its members earlier in August, the attackers, who apparently use the now-suspended @DadSecurity Twitter handle, have redoubled their efforts. Mumsnet issued a statement online following a series of outages on Monday and Tuesday this week. “We were hit by another denial of service attack which meant we were offline until this morning,” Mumsnet wrote on Tuesday. “As soon as we got back up we were attacked again.