{"id":8423,"date":"2013-07-29T16:21:44","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T16:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudnewsdaily.com\/?p=14771"},"modified":"2013-07-29T16:21:44","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T16:21:44","slug":"breaking-github-back-up-after-todays-ddos-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/breaking-github-back-up-after-todays-ddos-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: GitHub Back Up After Today\u2019s DDoS Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>GitHub was essentially down for about an hour today, starting at around 11 am Eastern (1500 UTC) due to a reported DDoS attack. From their status page:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong>15:05 UTC<\/strong> We&#8217;re currently experiencing a large DDoS attack. The site is experiencing major packet loss and is mostly unavailable. We&#8217;re working to further mitigate the attack.<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong>16:10 UTC<\/strong> We&#8217;ve mitigated the DDoS attack and the site should responding normally. We&#8217;re still investigating the cause of the small increase in exceptions when accessing the GitHub API.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=6197a90c-be46-4c5d-bca0-d0d6d017f205\" \/><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/CloudNewsDaily\/~4\/XnMgr_-EXmI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GitHub was essentially down for about an hour today, starting at around 11 am Eastern (1500 UTC) due to a reported DDoS attack. From their status page: 15:05 UTC We&rsquo;re currently experiencing a large DDoS attack. The site is experiencing major packet loss and is mostly unavailable. We&rsquo;re working to further mitigate the attack. 16:10 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1487,1273,599],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-denial-of-service-attack","category-github","category-outage-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}