How Project Shield helped defend against one of the largest DDoS attacks to date
You can never be sure when you’ll be the target of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. For investigative journalist Brian Krebs, that day came on May 12, when his site KrebsOnSecurity experienced one of the largest DDoS attacks seen to date. At 6.3 terabits per second (Tbps), or roughly 63,000 times the speed of broadband internet in the U.S., the attack was 10 times the size of the DDoS attack Krebs faced in 2016 from the Mirai botnet. That 2016 incident took down KrebsOnSecurity.com for four days, and was so severe that his then-DDoS protection service asked him to find [...]