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2018-03-26 14:18
As the latest record DDoS attack hit GitHub and threatened to overwhelm its edge network, the popular Git-repository hosting service quickly switched to routing the attack traffic to their DDoS mitigation service. In the end, GitHub ended up completely unavailable for five minutes and intermittently unavailable for four. But while the effect of the attack could have been worse, GitHub’s engineering team aims to do better next time they are hit. Robert Hamilton, Director of … More → The post Do you have what it takes to withstand modern DDoS attacks? appeared first on Help Net Security.
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