KrebsOnSecurity moves to [Google's] Project Shield for protection against DDoS attack censorship

["dfarber" <dave () farber net>]

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From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
Subject: [ NNSquad ] KrebsOnSecurity moves to [Google's] Project Shield for protection against DDoS attack censorship
Date: September 25, 2016 at 1:09:48 PM EDT
To: nnsquad () nnsquad org


KrebsOnSecurity moves to [Google's] Project Shield for protection against DDoS attack censorship

http://www.networkworld.com/article/3123806/security/krebsonsecurity-moves-to-project-shield-for-protection-against-ddos-attack-censorship.html

        His site has been protected by Prolexic, which was acquired by
        Akamai; yet after sustained attacks were hitting his site with
        about 620 Gbps of junk data, Akamai opted to stop providing
        Krebs with pro bono protection service; protecting his site
        was affecting the company's paying customers.  Akamai, which
        Krebs does not fault for dropping him, claimed a sustained
        DDoS attack against Krebs' site could have cost millions of
        dollars to mitigate. Akamai told The Boston Globe that the
        scale of attack on Krebs "stunned its engineers" since it was
        "almost twice as much traffic as Akamai had ever seen in a
        previous attack." ... Yet Krebs needed to bring his site back
        up, so he opted for Project Shield which offers "free,
        unlimited protection." The service is built on Google Cloud
        Platform in order "to protect news sites and free expression
        from DDoS attacks on the web."

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--Lauren--



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