‘Google Launches ‘Project Shield’ to Defend Against Cyberattacks’ – ‘Mashable’

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai says, “Websites run by dissidents and human rights activists around the world have a new ally in the fight against oppressive regimes: Google.To defend against the growing threat of cyberattacks, and specifically Distributed Denial of Service attacks (DDoS), which can take down a site with a massive stream of malicious traffic, Google has launched Project Shield. The new tool protects sites from being taken offline, allowing them to serve their content through Google’s infrastructure“.