Github down?

[duff]

Can anyone get to github today?

 

[manitou]

Can anyone get to github today?

internet is experiencing multiple denial-of-service attacks today

github works for me at the moment.

 

[PaulStoffregen]

It was running slow for me earlier this morning while pushing a couple commits. Now I can't reach it at all.

Here's an article about the DDOS attack, which apparently is still happening.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/21/many-sites-including-twitter-and-spotify-suffering-outage/

 

[PaulStoffregen]

Looks like the mainstream news is now picking up the story.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/us-monitoring-repeated-cyber-attacks-twitter-major-sites/story?id=42971910

 

[tcottle]

One proposed theory about the outage

 

[duff]

I decided to go hiking instead

 

[defragster]

Reading a linked story ... techcrunch.com ... many-sites-including-twitter-and-spotify-suffering-outage/

determined that some of the traffic used in the attacks comes from the Mirai botnet, a network of infected Internet of Things devices used in other recent large-scale DDoS attacks.