Security News > 2015 > March > DDoS Attack on GitHub Linked to Earlier One Against GreatFire.org (Threatpost)
2015-03-31 14:35
The ongoing DDoS attack on GitHub, which has made the social coding site intermittently unresponsive since March 25, is essentially a side effect of an older operation from the Chinese government against a site run by the anti-censorship project GreatFire.org. Officials at GreatFire said that the attack on their infrastructure began on March 17 and involved […]
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