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On Wednesday, a 1.3Tbps DDoS attack pummeled GitHub for 15-20 minutes. Here's how it stayed online.
The message was embedded within a line of Python code that was delivered by the compromised machines. It demanded GitHub hand over 50 XMR (Monero cryptocurrency). This amounts to about $15,000 US.
A new way to amplify distributed denial-of-service attacks ended up harassing Github on Wednesday. The ensuing DDoS attack generated a flood of internet traffic that peaked at 1.35 Terabits per ...
GitHub has revealed it was hit with what may be the largest-ever distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. The first portion of the attack against the developer platform peaked at 1.35Tbps, and ...
Yesterday, the internet’s favorite code repository, GitHub, was hit by a record 1.35-terabits-per-second denial-of-service attack—the most powerful ...
GitHub is having one hell of a week, with four outages in five weekdays. The social coding site is currently being hit by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, the second one in two days ...
“The ongoing DDoS attack has shifted again to include Pages and assets. We are updating our defenses to match,” company officials said on the GitHub status page at 10 AM UTC Saturday.
GitHub reported on March 1 that it was the victim of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 1.35 Tbps (Terabits per second), making it the largest DDoS attack that has been ...
Written by Charlie Osborne, Contributing Writer Aug. 26, 2015, 1:00 a.m. PT Symantec GitHub has been working to mitigate a new DDoS attack levied against the service this week.
GitHub’s status page first reported that it was being impacted by a DDoS attack on March 26, and it is still ongoing as of March 30. GitHub has emerged in recent years as the world’s most ...
Github endured a few sporadic outages as the largest attack ever recorded — 1.3 terabytes worth of traffic flooding its networks — hit its but was able to avoid a prolonged outage thanks to ...