The GitHub specialized platform for developers suffered a major DDoS attack (DoS attack service), temporarily paralyzing the site.
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DDoS attacks have become a real scourge in recent months, as it has become easy to use them to disrupt the activity of a site. This time it's the GitHub site that has paid the price, since it has suffered the largest attack in its history. The denial of service attack lasted several days.
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The platform GitHub victim of a DDoS attack
The platform for developers GitHub was shocked March 26 to see that she was the victim of a denial of service. She had already had problems like this in the past, but soon the site had to resign, this time the attack was really important. The DDoS attack lasted several days and an intensity never equaled, because the hackers responsible for this denial of service simply diverted part of the Chinese search engine Baidu traffic and were redirected to GitHub.
China could have orchestrated this attack DoS
The GitHub platform found itself inundated with requests. Two pages were particularly affected by this massive influx of traffic, namely a Chinese version of the New York Times which is normally banned in China and GreatFire.org page known to host links to sites censored in China.
The GitHub platform failed to locate that carried out this attack denial of service, as required by a code, allowing an influx of visitors from around the world. However, the platform has revealed that the chosen targets, highly technical and most importantly, the use of very large Chinese internet infrastructure to carry out this attack DDos, demonstrates that it is a condition and presumably the China.
See This : Lizard Squad now sells DDoS attacks
DDoS attacks have become a real scourge in recent months, as it has become easy to use them to disrupt the activity of a site. This time it's the GitHub site that has paid the price, since it has suffered the largest attack in its history. The denial of service attack lasted several days.
The platform GitHub victim of a DDoS attack
The platform for developers GitHub was shocked March 26 to see that she was the victim of a denial of service. She had already had problems like this in the past, but soon the site had to resign, this time the attack was really important. The DDoS attack lasted several days and an intensity never equaled, because the hackers responsible for this denial of service simply diverted part of the Chinese search engine Baidu traffic and were redirected to GitHub.
China could have orchestrated this attack DoS
The GitHub platform found itself inundated with requests. Two pages were particularly affected by this massive influx of traffic, namely a Chinese version of the New York Times which is normally banned in China and GreatFire.org page known to host links to sites censored in China.
The GitHub platform failed to locate that carried out this attack denial of service, as required by a code, allowing an influx of visitors from around the world. However, the platform has revealed that the chosen targets, highly technical and most importantly, the use of very large Chinese internet infrastructure to carry out this attack DDos, demonstrates that it is a condition and presumably the China.