[rdudek]

Is it just me or are these attacks becomming more and more common? I hope we can get some more details on the attack like the origination of it, type used, and what steps were take to mitigate it. I always use information like this as a learning opportunity :)

[alandarev]

When even the governments use DDoS [1] as a method to 'turn-off' services they don't like, it will be a very long path to fight.

[1] - https://www.quakenet.org/articles/102-press-release-irc-netw...

[rickyc091]

Github provided some information on the attacks being performed.

https://github.com/blog/1796-denial-of-service-attacks