Bitdefender's "HOT for Security" blog:
GitHub is suffering an ongoing DDoS attack after search engine traffic was redirected to flood the code repository.
On March 25, Baidu traffic began hitting a pair of URLs hosted on GitHub and causing temporary disruptions of the service.
"We are currently experiencing the largest DDoS attack in github.com's history," the company announced. "The attack involves a wide combination of attack vectors. These include every vector we've seen in previous attacks as well as some sophisticated new techniques that use the web browsers of unsuspecting, uninvolved people to flood github.com with high levels of traffic."
Continued : http://www.hotforsecurity.com/blog/github-under-largest-ddos-in-site-history-11658.html
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