Internet activists blame China for cyber-attack that brought down GitHub
by Dominic Rushe from Technology | The Guardian on (#63D0)
GitHub censorship project GreatFire alleges that China authorities redirected global web traffic to launch a massive denial of service attack on the website
Activists battling internet censorship in China said Monday they had proof a massive online assault on their websites had been coordinated by the Chinese authorities.
In recent days, popular coding service GitHub faced a massive denial of service (DDoS) attack - an online attack aimed at bringing down a service by overloading it with fake traffic.
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