14 DAY TRIAL // GitHub is often disrupted by distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks. However, during September, things appeared to have calmed down, the last attack being reported in late August. That was until October 2, when the site was hit once again.
The first issues were reported at 19:54 UTC. A few minutes later, the GitHub status page showed that the website was hit by a “large scale DDOS attack.”
Its experience in dealing with such cyberattacks has apparently come in handy for GitHub, since it managed to restore services within ten minutes.
“The site remains available as we continue to mitigate a large and growing DDoS attack. There may be some isolated problems as we apply different mitigation strategies,” read a message posted at 20:23 UTC.
Currently, GitHub appears to be working properly.
Update. Today, October 3, 2013, at 9:43 UTC another DDOS attack started.