China's Foreign Ministry: China Did Not Attack Github, We Are the Major Victims
Posted by samzenpus
An anonymous reader writes:
At the Regular Press Conference on March 30, China's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying responded on the charge of DDoS attack over Github. She said: "It is quite odd that every time a website in the US or any other country is under attack, there will be speculation that Chinese hackers are behind it. I'd like to remind you that China is one of the major victims of cyber attacks.
We have been underlining that China hopes to work with the international community to speed up the making of international rules and jointly keep the cyber space peaceful, secure, open and cooperative. It is hoped that all parties can work in concert to address hacker attacks in a positive and constructive manner."
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Github Under DDoS Attack From Chinese Government
Posted by Soulskill
An anonymous reader writes:
During the past two days, popular code hosting site GitHub has been under a DDoS attack, which has led to intermittent service interruptions.
As blogger Anthr@X reports from traceroute lists, the attack originated from MITM-modified JavaScript files for the Chinese company Baidu's user tracking code, changing the unencrypted content as it passed through the great firewall of China to request the URL's github.com/greatfire/ and github.com/cn-nytimes/.
The Chinese government's dislike of widespread VPN usage may have caused it to arrange the attack, where only people accessing Baidu's services from outside the firewall would contribute to the DDoS. This wouldn't have been the first time China arranged this kind of "protest."
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