Large Scale DDoS Attack on GitHub.com(github.com) |
Large Scale DDoS Attack on GitHub.com(github.com) |
Can anyone decipher this?
The attack has since been addressed by GitHub (it relies on XSS, so GitHub was actually able to inject a Javascript `alert()` to each attack attempt; this not only warns the user that the site is doing naughty things, but also stops further JS execution IIRC), and it seems the attack itself has also stopped.
More information: https://archive.today/jZ0zb