Decentralized Internet Can Be the Answer to DDoS Problems
The use of decentralized internet services like MaidSafe may prevent DDoS attacks like the one that happened recently. The recent DDoS attack on some of the major websites on the internet has renewed interests in the decentralized internet. While there are multiple initiatives concerning blockchain technology and decentralized network in development, the DDoS attack is expected to accelerate the process. The CTO of Golem, Piotr Janiuk has recently explained that by decentralizing the internet using peer to peer technology the chances of such attacks can be minimized. He believes that the....
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Golem's recently concluded highly successful ICO may accelerate the development of decentralized computing. and internet. In the dawn of recent mass DDoS attacks that disrupted the internet, rendering some of the leading websites inaccessible — interest in the decentralized internet has been rekindled. The concept of the decentralized internet is not a new thing, with innovations in the cryptocurrency sector it is now within hands reach. There are few blockchain technology companies that are working on creating decentralized internet platforms and Golem is one among them. In order to fund....
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The internet infrastructure and risk-mitigating company, Cloudflare Inc., reportedly prevented the largest distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack earlier this month, calling it the most volumetric attack the company has recorded to date. The attack in question was aimed at a crypto platform. The number of requests per second (rps) of the current DDoS attack […]
European bitcoin exchange BTC-e was offline for several hours today after the site said that it was the target of a distributed denial-of service (DDoS) attack. The site is intermittently available at press time, though according to data produced on the exchange’s front page, trades are being executed amid the user connectivity problems. Posts on social media suggest that the downtime lasted as many as four hours. The exchange previously reported that it was being attacked, and the downtime sparked concerns that the exchange had been compromised. The exchange, believed to be located....