GitHub Defenses Hold in 4-Days-and-Counting Battle

After battling a DDoS attack for four days, GitHub has restored normal service levels. The primary target of the assault is GreatFire.org, which is hosted on GitHub. GreatFire has attracted the ire of the Chinese government for offering anticensorship tools. "Very clearly, the Cyberspace Administration of China is behind both of the recent DDoS attacks," said GreatFire Co-founder Charles Smith. The attack used malicious code inserted in Baidu Analytics to turn millions of unwitting users into procreators of crippling DDoS traffic.



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