DDoS attack on GitHub has stopped? Status is green again.
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DDoS attack on GitHub has stopped? Status is green again.
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Re: DDoS attack on GitHub has stopped? Status is green again.
#2Maybe...but it was green a couple of times on March 27 as well. Time will tell.
Re: DDoS attack on GitHub has stopped? Status is green again.
#3I think it's more they're no longer worried about it evolving any more.
Re: DDoS attack on GitHub has stopped? Status is green again.
#4Does anybody have any wider context regarding this attack? Is it the first time a massive DDoS like that was mitigated, with just minor disruptions to the victim?
Re: DDoS attack on GitHub has stopped? Status is green again.
#5https://github.com/greatfire and https://github.com/cn-nytimes have both returned to normal as well.
Re: DDoS attack on GitHub has stopped? Status is green again.
#6I think it's more they're no longer worried about it evolving any more.
They had said in their updates that they'd leave it yellow until it subsided.
Re: DDoS attack on GitHub has stopped? Status is green again.
#7Does anybody have any wider context regarding this attack? Is it the first time a massive DDoS like that was mitigated, with just minor disruptions to the victim?
Not by a long-shot; this was reported as a big deal (and I'd love to have more insight and data available), but this kind of thing has been going on for many years.
Ask your local DNS admin for some war stories. :-)
Re: DDoS attack on GitHub has stopped? Status is green again.
#8https://github.com/greatfire and https://github.com/cn-nytimes have both returned to normal as well.
I'm still seeing the unicorn via those URLs.
Re: DDoS attack on GitHub has stopped? Status is green again.
#9Does anybody have any wider context regarding this attack? Is it the first time a massive DDoS like that was mitigated, with just minor disruptions to the victim?
Prologue:
http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/19/anti-censorship-service-gre...
See links around this article, similar attacks have happened before:
http://www.netresec.com/?page=Blog&month=2015-03&post=China%...
Re: DDoS attack on GitHub has stopped? Status is green again.
#10Does anybody have any wider context regarding this attack? Is it the first time a massive DDoS like that was mitigated, with just minor disruptions to the victim?
Not by a long-shot; this was reported as a big deal (and I'd love to have more insight and data available), but this kind of thing has been going on for many years. Ask your local DNS admin for some war stories. :-)
It also gained notoriety because it seemed like an attempt by a Chinese actor (possibly the PRC) to force Github to take down two repositories that helped to circumvent the Great Firewall.
Github itself has weathered DDoS attacks before, but I'm not sure how different this attack was in scale.