Github said it turned back a distributed denial-of-service attack this morning. It s unknown from where the attacks originated and whether they re related to massive days-long DDoS attack carried out earlier this year. The March attack against Github was linked to servers based in China and lasted close to a week. It’s unknown whether this attack is related to another attack against anticensorship website GreatFire.org carried out by the Chinese government, experts said. A request for comment from Github was not returned in time for publication.
Source: https://threatpost.com/github-mitigates-ddos-attack/114403/