Google launches Project Shield, to protect news sites from DDoS attacks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZqiF5Duh0U&feature=youtu.be

Insecure desktop operating systems (and even server/CMS vulnerabilities) has led to the creation of enormous, powerful botnets comprised of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of machines -- and thanks to the law of supply and demand, it's remarkably cheap and easy to rent time on a botnet and blast any site of your choosing off the Internet. (more")