SiliconRepublic

GitHub falls victim to world’s largest DDoS attack: What you should know

GitHub weathers the largest-known DDoS attack in history as cyberattacks grow in sophistication. GitHub was the victim of the most powerful distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on record on ...
Computing

Security researchers' warning over Linux feature used in biggest ever DDoS attack on Github

GitHub targeted by 1.3 Tbps DDoS attack using Linux feature never intended to be exposed to the internet The distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack targeting Github last week, which at its peak ...
Wired

GITHUB SURVIVED THE BIGGEST DDOS ATTACK EVER RECORDED

On Wednesday, at about 12:15 pm EST, 1.35 terabits per second of traffic hit the developer platform GitHub all at once. It was the most powerful distributed denial of service attack recorded to ...
eWeek

GitHub Under Sustained DDoS Attack

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Some distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are ...
Threat Post

Github Mitigates DDoS Attack

Github said it turned back a distributed denial of service attack; it’s unknown whether this attack is related to a similar attack this March. Code repository Github mitigated a distributed ...
Graham Cluley

As GitHub is hit hard, experts disagree whether DDoS attacks are becoming more or less frequent

GitHub has been hit by a massive DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack in the last day or so, intermittently resulting in outages for developers attempting to access source code stored on the ...