GitHub is a popular source code sharing website which is used by programmers for software development and user collaborate in the development. On Tuesday morning GitHub again became the victim of DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack.
After investigation of the attack occur on the website, the team identified that the service of the website was under the new DDoS attack and early on Tuesday company knows the attack.
GitHub posted about this information on there official Twitter account. "The connectivity problems have been identified as a DDoS attack. We're working to mitigate now," on GitHub status.
This time attack did not take last long, roughly just four hours after issue is reported by company. Github announced that everything was back to normal after mitigated the attack.
Last time on march DDoS attack against GitHub lasted about a week. The attackers used the malicious javascript to hijack the internet traffic from victims worldwide that was redirected to GitHub.
Unless from GitHub status page on twitter, the company has not provided much more details about this latest attack.
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