On Wednesday, February 28, 2018 GitHub.com was unavailable from 17:21 to 17:26 UTC and intermittently unavailable from 17:26 to 17:30 UTC due to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Click link below for complete info.
Github said the attackers used Memcached to do the DDoS attack.
Cloudflare has a recent blog post on how Memcached can be used to perform a DDoS attack. If you are using Memcached, you might be vulnerable to DDoS too. Read the blog on how to fix this vulnerability.
Cloudflare says that if you are using Cloudflare, you are safe:
Cloudflare said they received word from hosts such as Digital Ocean, OVH, Linode and Amazon that they have tackled the Memcached issue. If you are using one of those hosts, then you are safe:
Github said the attackers used Memcached to do the DDoS attack.
Cloudflare has a recent blog post on how Memcached can be used to perform a DDoS attack. If you are using Memcached, you might be vulnerable to DDoS too. Read the blog on how to fix this vulnerability.
Cloudflare says that if you are using Cloudflare, you are safe:
Originally posted by CloudFlare
Originally posted by CloudFlare
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