GitHub hit with largest ever DDoS attack

By Allie Coyne on Mar 2, 2018 7:24AM

Reaches 1.35 Tbps.

Developer platform Github has been hit with the most powerful distributed denial of service attack on record, managing to survive 1.35 Tbps of traffic flooded to its website relatively unscathed. The company revealed that its website went down for about ten minutes intermittently on ...

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