Google Protect Journalists from Cyber Attacks Largest in History

Last week, the site owned by internet security specialist journalist Brian Krebs attack after sellers lowered reports of hacking VDOs from Israel. Attack mode with distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack was called as the biggest in history.

DDoS is a technique of flooding a website with bogus traffic from an infected computer "bot" that can not be accessed by visitors and cause server overload.

Cloud hosting service provider Akamai Technologies is shaded site at the address Krebsonsecurity.com Krebs finally gave up. The Web site crashed.

But the situation did not last long. Earlier this week, as summarized BojezCreative of Fortune, Sunday (02/10/2016), Krebs site is back online, after he obtained the help of Google.

"I am pleased to announce that the site can already be accessed again. This time under the Project Shield, "Krebs wrote in a posting.

Project Shield is a project run by the parent company Google, Alphabet, through a subsidiary called Jigsaw.

Project Shield is dedicated to protecting freedom of expression on the internet, either expressed by journalists, other parties, such as blogger atay human rights activists, or political polling sites that do not shut down by the other party does not like the content of the website.

Sites under the auspices of Project Shield protected from DDoS attacks by several mechanisms, including traffic filtering and caching facilities websites on Google's servers to "absorb" the wave of attacks.

Google's Project Shield provide services free of charge or free.

The attacks

Security blogger Brian Krebs veteran Brian Krebs
Krebs did not blame Akamai's "throw" the site of the network for the attack so fierce that can come when Akamai adversely affect other users remain.

In fact, the DDoS flood Krebs site to one of the biggest in the history of Akamai with numbers 620 Gbps, well above the previous record of 363 Gbps.

DDoS attacks are often used as a mechanism of "censorship" by certain parties on the internet to silence a site so that it can not be accessed.

Where it came from such attacks? Krebs said that there were indications attacker exploit the site IOT devices.

IOT devices are widely available in a variety of places, such as routers, IP cameras, to video player connected to the Internet and vulnerable hacked.

The attackers created arms contain IOT devices from around the world to become a "zombie", to launch a major offensive at the same time continuously.

"The analogy is like the stock 'stormtrooper' (troops antagonist in the movie Star Wars) infinite who could be ordered to attack at any time desired," wrote Krebs.