The Democratization of Censorship
Summary: A DDoS attack of roughly 620 Gbps took KrebsOnSecurity offline after Akamai, its pro bono DDoS protection provider, dropped the site because the assault was nearly twice the size of any attack it had previously seen and was beginning to affect paying customers. Krebs attributes the attack to a botnet of hacked Internet of Things devices - mainly routers, IP cameras and DVRs - protected by weak or hard-coded passwords, and reports the site is back online under Google's Project Shield.
What's compelling: One DDoS mitigation firm quoted $150,000 to $200,000 per year for protection at the level Akamai had provided, a price that puts sustained defense out of reach for most independent journalists and small publishers.
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