Can anyone get to github today?
manitou Senior Member+ Oct 21, 2016 #2 duff said: Can anyone get to github today? Click to expand... internet is experiencing multiple denial-of-service attacks today github works for me at the moment.
duff said: Can anyone get to github today? Click to expand... internet is experiencing multiple denial-of-service attacks today github works for me at the moment.
PaulStoffregen Well-known member Oct 21, 2016 #3 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/
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 Well-known member Oct 21, 2016 #4 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
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
defragster Senior Member+ Oct 21, 2016 #7 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. Click to expand...
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. Click to expand...