By Marius Nestor 27 Mar 2015
Some users might still experience some issues
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The popular GitHub website suffered a minor service outage on March 26 due to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. At the moment, the website appears to work properly on our end, but some users still report intermittent connectivity with Git operations.
GitHub’s awesome team of administrators worked hard in the last 24 hours to keep the situation under control, as stated on the GitHub System Status page. “We continue to respond to an ongoing DDoS attack. Some users may experience intermittent connectivity with git operations as we mitigate the problem,” they say.
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GitHub Has Been Under a Continuous DDoS Attack in the Last 24 Hours
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Servers up and down during 24-hour-long DDoS
27 Mar 2015 at 18:17, Shaun Nichols GitHub's servers are being hammered by web traffic from an army of unwitting cyber-foot-soldiers.It appears when thousands of people visit websites that serve ads and tracking code from Baidu – China's answer to Google – from outside the Middle Kingdom, network gateways on the Chinese border silently inject a JavaScript function into those websites' pages.
This simple code repeatedly and stealthily connects to GitHub.com every two seconds, creating "an extremely large amount of traffic," the San Francisco-based upstart said.
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The attacks, which started Thursday, were particularly aimed at two GitHub-hosted projects fighting Chinese censorship
Mar 30, 2015 By Jeremy Kirk
Software development platform GitHub said Sunday it was still experiencing intermittent outages from the largest cyber attack in its history but had halted most of the attack traffic.
Starting on Thursday, GitHub was hit by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that sent large volumes of Web traffic to the site, particularly towards two Chinese anti-censorship projects hosted there.
Over the next few days, the attackers changed their DDoS tactics as GitHub defended the site, but as of Sunday, it appears the site was mostly working.
A GitHub service called Gists, which lets people post bits of code, was still affected, it said. On Twitter, GitHub said it continued to adapt its defenses.
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The following article is a update:
By: 26 Aug 2015 at 04:03, Simon Sharwood
GitHub is under a distributed-denial-of-service attack being perpetrated by unknown actors.
The service's status page reported “a brief capacity overload” early on Tuesday. The site's assessment of the incident was later upgraded to a a DDOS and at the time of writing the site is at code yellow.
The graphic at the stop of this story (here for mobile device readers) shows that something gave the site a big kick in the web server and that service has wobbled since.
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GitHub wobbles under DDOS attack.
What's that big spike on site performance graph?
By: 26 Aug 2015 at 04:03, Simon Sharwood
GitHub is under a distributed-denial-of-service attack being perpetrated by unknown actors.
The service's status page reported “a brief capacity overload” early on Tuesday. The site's assessment of the incident was later upgraded to a a DDOS and at the time of writing the site is at code yellow.
The graphic at the stop of this story (here for mobile device readers) shows that something gave the site a big kick in the web server and that service has wobbled since.
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