GitHub suffering the largest DDoS of its history
Github has reported having been the target of the largest distributed denial of service attack suffered by the company.
The attack, apparently originated from China and addressed towards websites with tools against censorship in the Internet, begun in March 26th and has been active for approximately 87 hours, according to GitHub sources, who is taking measures for mitigating it.
The attack, apparently originated from China and addressed towards websites with tools against censorship in the Internet, begun in March 26th and has been active for approximately 87 hours, according to GitHub sources, who is taking measures for mitigating it.
References:
- 29/03/2015 status.github.com GitHub Status (2015-03-29)
- 27/03/2015 github.com Large Scale DDoS Attack on github.com
- 30/03/2015 zdnet.com GitHub suffers 'largest DDoS' attack in site's history
- 27/03/2015 securitybydefault.com China (probablemente ataca GitHub introduciendo un troyano en Baidu
- 29/03/2015 computerworld.com GitHub recovering from massive DDoS attacks