GitHub Hit With Largest DDoS Attack

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Someone at Github really made the wrong person mad, yesterday it was down due to a 1.35 terabits per second of DDoS, and the service was down for about five minutes from 9:21am PT, and then intermittently unavailable for the following four minutes.

Within 10 minutes, GitHub had automatically called for help from Akamai Prolexic, a DDoS mitigation service. According to WIRED, Prolexic routed all of the traffic coming into and out of GitHub, and after eight minutes, it had located malicious packets, the attackers relented, and the assault dropped off.
 
Quite funny considering I've recently switched from GitHub to my own GitLab server.
Luckily this attack didn't impact so much, considering it took just 4 minutes (and 0 seconds on my Git server, in case you ask any way).
And a majority of the world was either asleep or have ended their work by that time too.
 
I agree it is lucky that this DDoS did not last very long. But, I think the person who started the DDoS may spend many months or longer in jail if he ever gets caught, or turn himself in to the police.
 
SuwakoMoriya said:
Quite funny considering I've recently switched from GitHub to my own GitLab server.
Luckily this attack didn't impact so much, considering it took just 4 minutes (and 0 seconds on my Git server, in case you ask any way).
And a majority of the world was either asleep or have ended their work by that time too.
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Sounds like if the attacker was a lot smarter the service could have been down for hours or even days.
 
Demon_Skeith said:
Sounds like if the attacker was a lot smarter the service could have been down for hours or even days.
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No, that was not the purpose of my post.
DDoS doesn't have anything to do with how smart you are, but rather how much traffic you can generate to a single network.

Funny parts were when on another community we sometimes got butthurt people that got banned for good reasons, threatening to DDoS us all on their own (and sometimes with 1 friend).
Heh, I'm not an idiot, I know perfectly well that you can't DDoS as a single home user!

Though at one occasion, servers did get very slow at the exact time they promised to DDoS, but a few hours later our datacentre folks sent out a message to all customers that it was just a maintenance they had internally, so in the end it was just coincidence.
 
SuwakoMoriya said:
No, that was not the purpose of my post.
DDoS doesn't have anything to do with how smart you are, but rather how much traffic you can generate to a single network.

Funny parts were when on another community we sometimes got butthurt people that got banned for good reasons, threatening to DDoS us all on their own (and sometimes with 1 friend).
Heh, I'm not an idiot, I know perfectly well that you can't DDoS as a single home user!

Though at one occasion, servers did get very slow at the exact time they promised to DDoS, but a few hours later our datacentre folks sent out a message to all customers that it was just a maintenance they had internally, so in the end it was just coincidence.
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From the sounds of it the DDoS wasn't put well together so it would be hard to stop, but they stopped it in no time which means whoever launched it didn't do a good job.
 
No you didn't understand what I meant at all it seems.

They didn't DDoS at all, they only treatened to do so.
The folks at the datacentre just had a maintenance around the time they treatened to strike, so the timing made it seem like they actually managed to perform a DDoS attack by themself.
 
SuwakoMoriya said:
No you didn't understand what I meant at all it seems.

They didn't DDoS at all, they only treatened to do so.
The folks at the datacentre just had a maintenance around the time they treatened to strike, so the timing made it seem like they actually managed to perform a DDoS attack by themself.
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They were clearly attacked via DDoS though:

February 28th DDoS Incident Report
 
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