GitHub is getting DDoSed again • Hacker News Board

Re: GitHub is getting DDoSed again

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Post by tatsuke95 » Sun, Mar 10, 2013, 1:30 PM UTC

martinced wrote: post #22

If several countries, distribute across various continents, have managed to put in place three-strikes and six-strikes (not that I think it's good), it means that the one and foremost knee-jerking argument saying "You can't do anything about DDoS because: [X] It's technically not realist" is gone. Technically now ISPs could throttle the bandwith (or even disallow net access) to zombies boxen used in DDoS attacks in a…

>"Technically now ISPs could throttle the bandwith (or even disallow net access)"

Most ISPs charge for bandwidth. Outside of governmental coercion, is there any incentive for them to do this?

Re: GitHub is getting DDoSed again

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Post by tatsuke95 » Sun, Mar 10, 2013, 1:35 PM UTC

smtddr wrote: post #25

DigitalSea wrote: post #4

This happened back in October a couple of days in a row. Who the heck is targeting Github and why? I wonder if these attacks are related to the Chinese hacking attacks that have been publicised lately?

> wonder if these attacks are related to the Chinese hacking attacks that have been publicised lately? Might be just me, but I don't like this trend. I'm seeing "the chinese" & "hacking" used too much together without proof more often than not. Almost as if they are being made into the next boogeyman to be afraid of.

>"I'm seeing "the chinese" & "hacking" used too much together without proof more often than not."

Get used to it, you're going to be seeing it for what is likely a few decades at least. We need an enemy. The Chinese are the new Red Army; something to blame Western problems on.

Re: GitHub is getting DDoSed again

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Post by jeremymcanally » Sun, Mar 10, 2013, 1:38 PM UTC

eksith wrote: post #12

Are we sure it's a DDoS or is it some sort of massively distributed scrape of the repos? (Side-effect being DDoS regardless) I'm starting to think this is some kind of grab for intellectual property; maybe even a targetting of private repos to somehow gain access.

Nope. It's a straightforward DDoS. No targeting of private repos or anything like that.

Re: GitHub is getting DDoSed again

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Mar 10, 2013, 1:38 PM UTC

eksith wrote: post #12

Are we sure it's a DDoS or is it some sort of massively distributed scrape of the repos? (Side-effect being DDoS regardless) I'm starting to think this is some kind of grab for intellectual property; maybe even a targetting of private repos to somehow gain access.

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Re: GitHub is getting DDoSed again

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Post by freddyduarte » Sun, Mar 10, 2013, 1:39 PM UTC

Meanwhile at Bitbucket... http://status.bitbucket.org/

Re: GitHub is getting DDoSed again

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Post by imbriaco » Sun, Mar 10, 2013, 1:45 PM UTC

babuskov wrote: post #18

Hm, just a couple of days later after another potential security exploit is published... maybe they did not plug all the holes, and someone is trying to clone all private repositories as soon as possible... hogging the servers in the process.

Nope. This was a pretty standard DoS attack.

Re: GitHub is getting DDoSed again

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Post by windexh8er » Sun, Mar 10, 2013, 1:51 PM UTC

freddyduarte wrote: post #35

Meanwhile at Bitbucket... http://status.bitbucket.org/

I <3 BitBucket over GitHub, but unfortunately they'd fall over in more or less the same manner under similar circumstances.

Re: GitHub is getting DDoSed again

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Post by sixbrx » Sun, Mar 10, 2013, 2:19 PM UTC

I consider it evidence that when some punk figures out how to make a black hole, we're done for. No reason necessary.

Re: GitHub is getting DDoSed again

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Post by bdg » Sun, Mar 10, 2013, 2:31 PM UTC

DigitalSea wrote: post #4

This happened back in October a couple of days in a row. Who the heck is targeting Github and why? I wonder if these attacks are related to the Chinese hacking attacks that have been publicised lately?

> Who the heck is targeting Github and why?

Typically large services are targeted by some some form of cyber-criminal. As an example only, if the Russian Business Network[1]* were attempting to extort money from github they could use a DDOS and go away when paid (for a while).

This happens to some larger media sites during large events such as the Olympics[2].

    [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Business_Network
    [2] http://news.techworld.com/security/3309917/london-olympics-cio-claims-immunity-from-ddos-attacks/

*Their MO is more towards identity theft

Re: GitHub is getting DDoSed again

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Post by niggler » Sun, Mar 10, 2013, 2:37 PM UTC

Is it just me or has github been down a lot in the later months (moreso than a year ago)? DDoS or otherwise, it doesn't inspire confidence, especially for paid accounts (which I considered but ultimately decided to go with another solution)