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wraggster
March 30th, 2015, 20:11
GitHub is one of several major firms that has been the victim of cyber attacks over the last few days.
“We are currently experience the largest DDoS [distributed denial of service] attack in GitHub’s history,” wrote the firm’s systems engineer Jesse Newland in an official blog post (https://github.com/blog/1981-large-scale-ddos-attack-on-github-com). "Based on reports we’ve received, we believe the intent of this attack is to convince us to remove a specific class of content.”
The content Newland refers to is believes to be web pages that provide users from China with ways to circumvent censorship controls for the region.

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/github-downed-by-ddos-attack/0147347