Journalist Brian Krebs is being helped by google massive server infrastructure after been victim of cyberattack on his website.
Last week there was a massive distributed denial-of-service(DDoS) attack on Kreb's site, Krebs Security was hugely compromised .There was nearly double the traffic his host Akamai had seen in previous cyberattacks, which was almost a record of its own kind.
Two men were arrested after Krebs reported, and the site was taken offline.
"Why do I speak of DDoS attacks as a form of censorship?" Krebs asks in a post on Sunday. "Quite simply because the economics of mitigating large-scale DDoS attacks do not bode well for protecting the individual user, to say nothing of independent journalists."
Krebs didn't blame Akamai for pulling the plug on his site. The company was hosting the website for free, and in the massive DDoS attack,it affected other paying customers as well.
Google offers Project Shield to independent news organizations, along with human rights and election monitoring sites that are frequently targeted in cyberattacks, the idea being that small websites don't have the money or tech to counter such an influx of traffic. So instead of letting them be taken offline and silenced, Project Shield keeps them online.
Since last Tuesday, Krebs' site had been under sustained distributed denial-of-service, or DDoS, a crude method of flooding a website with traffic to deny legitimate users from being able to access it. The assault flooded Krebs' site with more than 620 gigabits per second of traffic.
To put it more plainly: It's the digital equivalent of jamming a bunch of gunk into a drain pipe. Eventually, water won't be able to pass through.
Now he's back online, though it's unclear whether he is still under assault over at Google.
"I sincerely hope we can address this problem before it's too late," Krebs wrote. "And I'm deeply grateful for the overwhelming outpouring of support and solidarity that I've seen and heard from so many readers over the past few days. Thank you."
Last week there was a massive distributed denial-of-service(DDoS) attack on Kreb's site, Krebs Security was hugely compromised .There was nearly double the traffic his host Akamai had seen in previous cyberattacks, which was almost a record of its own kind.
Two men were arrested after Krebs reported, and the site was taken offline.
"Why do I speak of DDoS attacks as a form of censorship?" Krebs asks in a post on Sunday. "Quite simply because the economics of mitigating large-scale DDoS attacks do not bode well for protecting the individual user, to say nothing of independent journalists."
Krebs didn't blame Akamai for pulling the plug on his site. The company was hosting the website for free, and in the massive DDoS attack,it affected other paying customers as well.
Google offers Project Shield to independent news organizations, along with human rights and election monitoring sites that are frequently targeted in cyberattacks, the idea being that small websites don't have the money or tech to counter such an influx of traffic. So instead of letting them be taken offline and silenced, Project Shield keeps them online.
Since last Tuesday, Krebs' site had been under sustained distributed denial-of-service, or DDoS, a crude method of flooding a website with traffic to deny legitimate users from being able to access it. The assault flooded Krebs' site with more than 620 gigabits per second of traffic.
To put it more plainly: It's the digital equivalent of jamming a bunch of gunk into a drain pipe. Eventually, water won't be able to pass through.
Now he's back online, though it's unclear whether he is still under assault over at Google.
"I sincerely hope we can address this problem before it's too late," Krebs wrote. "And I'm deeply grateful for the overwhelming outpouring of support and solidarity that I've seen and heard from so many readers over the past few days. Thank you."