| Updated Wed, July 12th 2017 at 09:12 GMT +3Global tech giant, Google photo:courtesyGlobal tech giant, Google, in collaboration with Jigsaw, have launched a set of free tools meant to protect journalists covering the upcoming General Election. One of the tools, Protect Your Election, helps to safeguard what journalists and news sites publish. And Project Shield helps guard against common types of digital attacks during the election period. About 125,000 DDoS attacks happen every week and millions of phishing attempts are recorded every few months. During the past few years, there has been a rise in digital attacks targeting government, political party, and journalists' websites around the world.

Source: Standard Digital July 12, 2017 06:11 UTC