GitHub rides out record-breaking DDoS attack that leveraged memcached servers

 

The all-out assault rendered the webbased hosting service unavailable on Feb. 28 from 17:21 to 17:26 UTC and intermittently unavailable from 17:26 to 17:30 UTC. Nevertheless, the site staved off the volumetric attack and quickly restored normal service, an achievement GitHub credits to doubling its …

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