Google offers free Project Shield tool to help combat DDoS attacks
Project Shield has been released for use by news and human rights organisations
Google is offering Project Shield, a tool designed to help websites withstand distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, free to sites that help uncover corruption and controversy. Using an intermediate...
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