14 DAY TRIAL // GitHub is once again unavailable due to a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack. Both GitHub.com and Gist are impacted.
“We have confirmed GitHub.com and Gist are both undergoing a large DDoS attack and are working to mitigate the attack,” reads a message posted moments ago on GitHub’s status page.
GitHub says it has mitigated the attack, but it hasn’t confirmed that all attacks have ceased, so the website is still maintaining a yellow status.
This is not the first DDOS attack suffered by GitHub in October 2013. Attacks were also reported on October 1, 2 and 3.
The code repository is often targeted by cybercriminals, so the company has developed a pretty efficient system for dealing with them. In most cases, the website is restored minutes after being shut down.