World Live DDoS attack maps – Live DDoS Monitoring

To protect your website, you need to be able to block or absorb malicious traffic. Webmasters can talk to their hosting provider about DDoS attack protection. They can also route incoming traffic through a reputable third-party service that provides distributed caching to help filter out malicious traffic — reducing the strain on existing web servers. Most such services require a paid subscription, but often cost less than scaling up your own server capacity to deal with a DDoS attack.

Google Ideas has launched a new initiative, Project Shield, to use Google’s infrastructure to support free expression online by helping independent sites mitigate DDoS attack traffic.

Through the continued collaboration of the many stakeholders involved in improving the Internet, a number of efforts can help to reduce the threat of DDoS attacks.

For example, ten years ago the Network Working Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force published BCP 38 (also known as RFC 2827) as a best practice guideline for how ISPs and hosting providers can filter fake IP addresses to reduce the impact of DDoS activity on themselves and others. Unfortunately, many ISPs have still yet to implement these best practices, preventing its benefits from being fully realized by the wider internet community.

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks can be used to make important online information unavailable to the world. Sites covering elections are brought down to influence their outcome, media sites are attacked to censor stories, and businesses are taken offline by competitors looking for a leg up. Protecting access to information is important for the Internet and important for free expression.

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