Tag Archives: DDoS

Live attack on GitHub

DDoS attack

A massive DDos attack has been taking place on GitHub for the last 4 days.

From the status page the administrators seem to get on top of it, and the page is describing well the sequence of events

More information on the background of the attack is available here.

 

Aside

No surprise there: after the recent events in Crimea, Anonymous Caucasus is attacking multiple sites and services located in Russia, using DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service Attack). More info on ArsTechnica