Google has launched a free service to protect news websites against DDoS attacks. Project Shield will also be offered to human rights and election monitoring websites as a way of fending off increasingly commonplace site-swamping DDoS assaults. Google is offering to “reverse proxy” qualifying websites’ traffic through Google’s cloud platform. Publishers can opt in to route all their traffic through Google by making changes in their DNS settings.
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ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register
