Google’s Project Shield defends free speech from botnet scourge

Akamai, which speeds website content to users, had never seen anything like it.

At nearly 620 gigabits of traffic per second, an “extremely large and unusual” attack flooded cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs’ website with page-view requests, knocking it offline.

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