A new report criticizes the county's so-called "Project Shield" and the millions of dollars spent on a police car camera initiative. After 9/11, federal grants were given to help cities and towns to ...

Project Shield uses technology called a reverse proxy, which allows a webmaster to serve their site through Google infrastructure for free, providing a “shield” against would-be attackers.” And they ...

Over its years as an Internet behemoth, Google has learned a lot about fighting hackers who would knock its services off the web. Now it's offering its muscle to a far more vulnerable set of targets.

Google today announced a new initiative called Project Shield, which lets webmasters leverage the company’s technology and infrastructure to protect websites from being taken offline by Distributed ...

The distributed denial-of-service attack, better know as a DDoS, is one of the more basic but effective ways of shutting down a website you might want to torment. Often, hackers use them to silence ...

Google on Thursday announced that it was expanding its Project Shield program, offering to protect news and human rights websites from distributed denial of service attacks for free. Project Shield ...

This is the third part in a four-part series about journalism and cybersecurity. See part one, part two and part four. If you’re a small, independent news publisher, the idea that the biggest internet ...

Project Shield is a product of Jigsaw, formerly Google Ideas, and is dedicated to protecting freedom of expression and access to factual information. Back in 2016, the service offered its reverse ...