Security News > 2023 > August > Tor turns to proof-of-work puzzles to defend onion network from DDoS attacks
2023-08-26 08:31
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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