Security News > 2015 > March > GitHub Hit With DDoS Attack (Threatpost)

2015-03-27 15:54
A large-scale DDoS attack, apparently emanating from China, has been hammering the servers at GitHub over the course of the last 12 hours, periodically causing service outages at the code-sharing and collaboration site.
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http://threatpost.com/github-hit-with-ddos-attack/111850
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