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Who would try to disable github?
by ihuman 14y ago
Who would try to disable github?
- tegansnyder 14y agoThank is exactly what I was thinking. Who in their right mind would want to do that?
- maratd 14y agoSomeone who wants to test the limits of their botnet and technique. Can you think of a more tech savvy target?
- lucisferre 14y agoAmazon.
- bkanber 14y agoAmazon has a service outage every time you look at it funny, much less a DDoS... hyuk, hyuk
- donavanm 14y agoDDOSs are typically defeated through buying lots and lots of transit. That's an exercise in outspending your adversary. A small entity like github should be trivial to saturate.
- adgar2 14y agoGoogle. Amazon. Microsoft. Apple. Facebook. Most startups.
- tensor 14y agoMost startups? Name even one startup in the same league as the others you've named.
- SethMurphy 14y agoAttacking a rails application, you would be proud of that? Rails sites are not exactly known for their performance.
- Tipzntrix 14y agoI know a few governments who would be more than happy for github to be disabled.
- JoeCortopassi 14y agoCare to elaborate why GitHub would be a target for a state sponsored DDOS attack? Seems a little far-fetched, for a website that is virtually unknown outside of the developer community
- rcthompson 14y agoIn the broadest sense, github is a site where anyone can upload and publicize any file of reasonable size. Depending on who is uploading what, that could easily make them a target.
- moe 14y agoIn the broadest sense, about 10 million web-forums and similar sites also match your description... Why would they go for github of all things?
- Tipzntrix 14y agoWhile not as famous as Tor in Iran, for example, there are VPN implementations on GitHub, in addition to what rcthompson said.
- Dirlewanger 14y agoThere's some statistic out there somewhere from some paper which found out that like 3 out of every 4 (or something ridiculous like that) cyber attack on the US government comes from China so...it's not that farfetched.
- dbaupp 14y agoI don't quite see how that is relevant to a non-US government entity like GitHub.
- boomzilla 14y agoIt could just be some rogue deployment script running from EC2 that are a little more active that it should be. Imagine someone is deploying their 1GB repo from GitHub to 100 small EC2 instances :)
- Cherian 14y agoMy startup cucumbertown.com is hit with similar issues. Initially we blocked all Ec2[1] & spamhaus ip list. But then realized Flipboard proxies[2], some blog aggregation proxies etc are based on Ec2 machines. What would be a good way to block such rogue machines? Is there a community sponsored list or Ec2/Rackspace ips that are creating issues? https://forums.aws.amazon.com/ann.jspa?annID=1528 https://forums.aws.amazon.com/ann.jspa?annID=1528 http://flipboard.com/browserproxy/ http://flipboard.com/browserproxy/
- Caballera 14y agoBanks were being hit the first week of October, then I know some VoIP servers were being hit such as Callcentric by DDoS. I can see why the banks were hit, but not why so many much smaller businesses are being attacked.
- RileyJames 14y agoI would think being small(er) and having 100M in the bank makes github a pretty good target, unfortunately.
- i386 14y agoI don't think so. If you we're hosting GitHub you would figure out pretty easily if it was related to cloning a specific repo from AWS and just disable the account hosting the repo.
- rorrr 14y agoIt's the standard weapon of botnet blackmail. Target a large site, bring it down, ask for money. Fighting DDoS attacks is not trivial, especially if you're against a sophisticated botnet, and your code has multiple slow parts.
- chrixian 14y agoit was sourceforge
- tonfa 14y agoBack in 2009 when it happened to bitbucket, this was afaik due to hosting a particular project (hurting bitbucket was a side effect of hurting this particular project, some communities seems to be happy to resolve issues with DDoS attacks...).