GitHub Probably Suffered The World"s Biggest DDoS Attack Some Day Ago
GitHub said its website was hit by 1.3 terabits of data per second, the largest recorded DDoS attack in history on February 28, 2018. The world"s biggest developer platform suffered from a series of outages before asking for assistance from Akamai Prolexic (a leading DDoS mitigation services company), who assumed control of the traffic by steering everything through its bigger servers. By doing this, they eased the burden on GitHub servers while filtering out the malicious content. The bad actors inevitably surrendered and GitHub continued its normal operations in under 10 minutes. Now the attackers were able to back off at some point because it takes resources even on their part to carry out attacks as big as that. In such cases it either you sit out the attack by doing nothing or engage the services of anti-DDoS companies to filter out the unwanted traffic. According to an incident report from GitHub, they said “Between 17:21 and 17:30 UTC on February 28th we identifi...