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Tor turns to proof-of-work puzzles to defend onion network from DDoS attacks

No miners were involved in this story Tor, which stands for The Onion Router, weathered a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) storm from June last year through to May.…

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Tor turns to proof-of-work puzzles to defend onion network from DDoS attacks

Google blocks third record-breaking DDoS attack in as many months

46 million requests per second network flood comes as attacks increase by more than 200% compared to last year Google says it has blocked the largest ever HTTPS-based distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in June, which peaked at 46 million requests per second.…

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Google blocks third record-breaking DDoS attack in as many months