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GitHub was unavailable due to what appeared to be another DDoS attack
- doki_pen 14y agoI imagine the effect is amplified by people repeatedly trying to push/pull because of the failures.
- DigitalSea 14y agoYet again, another DDoS attack. This is getting ridiculous, someone has a serious vendetta against Github to keep trying to bring it down.
- buttscicles 14y agoI bet they just want to cause disruption to any people/businesses that rely on it rather than having anything against GitHub.
- kmfrk 14y agoSourceForge are getting desperate at this point.
- Nux 14y agoOr maybe some of these anti-ddos companies are looking to make some new customers. ;-)
- tankbot 14y agoSeems odd that you were down-voted. This has been a known tactic for unscrupulous anti-virus software vendors for more than a decade...
- m4tthumphrey 14y agoSeems to be back up again now. Is getting a bit silly though.
- orangethirty 14y agoMaybe someone testing some exploits? Given the security issues popping around lately one has to wonder.
- olalonde 14y agoI'm surprised that I can't even push code. Do they use the same servers for their website and Git servers!? Or are they getting DDoSed on both fronts? Update: I successfully pushed my code and the website seems to work now.
- dan_manges 14y agoThey likely have separate servers running on the same network. The DDoS might be saturating their network infrastructure rather than causing load on any particular servers.
- neya 14y agoI'm just curious, why do people generally DDoS attack websites? The cases that I've heard mostly about are the Anonymous groups attacking government websites because they were being unfair in certain scenarios..But why will anyone want to DDoS attack a legitimate service like GitHub, that is infact only helping out the community of Open Source (Free plans for Open source)? Just curious because, tomorrow this could be the case for your startup or mine..
- fafner 14y agoProbably criminals trying to extort money from GitHub ("Cyberextortion") or testing their bot net. That's why it's so important that every time we visit a computer-illiterate relative that we update their browser and operating system. Only you can prevent botnets.
- neya 14y ago>That's why it's so important that every time we visit a computer-illiterate relative that we update their browser and operating system. Wow, that's a really good thought, mate! Personally my relatives wouldn't let me touch their computers though (:cough :cough browser history :cough :cough) :D
- rplnt 14y agoBesides, "just for fun" or to "show off" (capability of your botnet for example) it can be a competition of either Github or their hosting providers.
- UnoriginalGuy 14y agoGitHub hosts tons of projects and pieces of information. Maybe the question shouldn't be "why does someone hate GitHub?" and should be "which of Github's projects upset someone?"
- d3c0d3dab0d3 14y agoIt could be a diversion for another attack. If there is currently a ddos going on, other suspicious behavior is more likely to be overlooked.
- niggler 14y agoHas bit bucket or any other similar site seen attacks as frequent and drastic as github ?
- pyre 14y agoI imagine it's just due to popularity, unless there's some evidence that Github isn't doing enough to protect against / recover from these attacks.
- teawithcarl 14y agoIf this is the Chinese, they are patiently testing the limits of Github's defenses. They've done that with nearly every Google product in China, gradually beating back Google's prestige and market share. It's insidiously clever, and an excellent attack vector. Patiently testing/preparing for worse disruption, patiently iterating mid-level frustration. Foreigners have yet to understand just how overt corruption is in China. If China, they're handshaking and smiling at Github, with harm's intent.
- duaneb 14y agoWhat would motivation be for this?
- recusancy 14y agoDecrease in American productivity, no matter how small. Might do major damage if they get lucky.
- duaneb 14y agoI would think that there are more efficient (in pecuniary terms) ways of disrupting american productivity, especially considering git is a decentralized system....
- teawithcarl 14y agoHow naive non-Chinese are to the level of blunt corruption - Github is a global crown jewel, similar in infrastructure to Google products. Any consistent frustration to the entire Github customer base is low cost to do, and easily worth it in cyber attack cost/benefit analysis.
- glomph 14y agoAre you serious? This reads like weird propaganda.
- solistice 14y ago
- skore 14y agoJust to make a very clear statement: This does nothing to my resolve to stick with GitHub. I'll just push a little later, whenever the next DDoS comes around.
- pyre 14y agoFinally! I was waiting to see what your opinion on this topic was, so that I knew what my opinion should be! :P
- MatthewPhillips 14y agoThis should be a non-issue for git since you can just pull from the other members of your team, but in reality few people are setup to allow others to do this.
- melchebo 14y agoWould be neat if their Github desktop apps would set this up p2p automatically.
- MatthewPhillips 14y ago
- ntoshev 14y agoIsn't Cloudflare pretty much a general purpose solution for DDoS? Is there any reason not to use them if you're often a target and don't want to deal with it yourself?
- niggler 14y ago"Is there any reason not to use them if you're often a target and don't want to deal with it yourself?" I don't think github became a target until very recently, and I imagine their corporate customers (using github enterprise) were unaffected by github.com uptime
- pronoiac 14y agoCan it? I pull and push Github over ssh, which is an attack path that Cloudflare isn't built to mitigate. If it were strictly http and https, it would be a different story.