Google Wants to Save News Sites From Cyberattacks--For Free
http://www.wired.com/2016/02/google-wants-save-news-sites-cyberattacks-free/
Today Google Ideas, recently renamed Jigsaw, is opening Project
Shield to applications from any "independent" news site--in
other words, one that's not owned by a government or political
party. Large corporate news sites are also eligible, but Project
Shield team lead George Conard says the initiative's real target
is small, under-resourced news sites that are vulnerable to the
web's growing epidemic of DDOS attacks. "Just about anyone who's
published anything interesting has come under an attack at some
point," says Conard. "The smaller and more independent voices
often don't have the resources, whether technical or financial,
to really put good protections in place...That's where we come
into the picture." Any site that signs up for Project Shield
can choose to use Google's domain name servers instead of their
own. That switch redirects visitors to a so-called "reverse
proxy"--an intermediate server owned by Google designed to
filter out malicious traffic and cache some elements of the site
to lighten the load on the website's own servers. (Conard was
hesitant to describe any details of the service's filtering, to
avoid giving tips to potential DDOS attackers.)
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--Lauren--
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