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Github DDoS Attack As Seen By Google

Posted by Soulskill on from the i-can-see-my-house-from-here dept.

New submitter opensec writes: Last month GitHub was hit by a massive DDoS attack originating from China. On this occasion the public discovered that the NSA was not the only one with a QUANTUM-like capability. China has its own "Great Cannon" that can inject malicious JavaScript inside HTTP traffic. That weapon was used in the GitHub attack. People using Baidu services were unwitting participants in the denial of service, their bandwidth used to flood the website. But such a massive subversion of the Internet could not evade Google's watchful eye. Niels Provos, engineer at Google, tells us how it happened. Showing that such attacks cannot be made covertly, Provos hopes that the public shaming will act as a deterrent.

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  1. Public Shaming the Red Chinese ? by Crashmarik · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'll love seeing how that works out. Their people are locked behind their firewall and don't get to see any criticism the government doesn't want them to see. Hell you can't even get politicians here shamed if the media doesn't do a full bore dog pile.

  2. Watchful eye of Google by ZeroInt · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Nothing escapes the watchful eye of Sauron.