GitHub Survived the Biggest DDoS Attack Ever Recorded
Found on Wired on Thursday, 01 March 2018
On Wednesday, at about 12:15pm ET, 1.35 terabits per second of traffic hit the developer platform GitHub all at once.
Within 10 minutes it had automatically called for help from its DDoS mitigation service, Akamai Prolexic. Prolexic took over as an intermediary, routing all the traffic coming into and out of GitHub, and sent the data through its scrubbing centers to weed out and block malicious packets. After eight minutes, attackers relented and the assault dropped off.
Now why someone would attack GitHub is a question that remainds to be answered. For just a few minutes of downtime the attacker only underlined the importance of secured systems.