Security News > 2015 > August > Github Mitigates DDoS Attack (Threatpost)

2015-08-25 14:01
Github said it turned back a distributed denial of service attack; it’s unknown whether this attack is related to a similar attack this March.
News URL
http://threatpost.com/github-mitigates-ddos-attack/114403
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