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Does anybody have any wider context regarding this attack? Is it the first time a massive DDoS like that was mitigated, with just minor disruptions to the victi
by f055 12y ago
Does anybody have any wider context regarding this attack? Is it the first time a massive DDoS like that was mitigated, with just minor disruptions to the victim?
- lordbusiness 12y agoNot by a long-shot; this was reported as a big deal (and I'd love to have more insight and data available), but this kind of thing has been going on for many years. Ask your local DNS admin for some war stories. :-)
- pyre 12y agoIt also gained notoriety because it seemed like an attempt by a Chinese actor (possibly the PRC) to force Github to take down two repositories that helped to circumvent the Great Firewall. Github itself has weathered DDoS attacks before, but I'm not sure how different this attack was in scale.
- sanxiyn 12y agohttps://github.com/blog/1981-large-scale-ddos-attack-on-github-com https://github.com/blog/1981-large-scale-ddos-attack-on-gith... explicitly states that "We are currently experiencing the largest DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack in github.com's history".
- zmk 12y agoPrologue: http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/19/anti-censorship-service-greatfire-is-under-attack/ http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/19/anti-censorship-service-gre... See links around this article, similar attacks have happened before: http://www.netresec.com/?page=Blog&month=2015-03&post=China%27s-Man-on-the-Side-Attack-on-GitHub http://www.netresec.com/?page=Blog&month=2015-03&post=China%...