Security News

Github Attack Perpetrated by China’s Great Cannon Traffic Injection Tool (Threatpost)
2015-04-10 17:06

The Great Firewall's offensive counterpart, the Great Cannon, which inject malicious scripts to reroute traffic, is responsible for recent massive DDoS attacks targeting Github and GreatFire.org.

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...