February 28th DDoS Incident Report

Re:February 28th DDoS Incident Report by flafla2 on Thursday March 01, 2018 @11:51AM (#16493620)

Ah ok. This makes much more sense -- leaving a port open seems like an amateur mistake for a firm like Github. Thanks for the link.

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Re:February 28th DDoS Incident Report by shuntress on Thursday March 01, 2018 @01:54PM (#16494951)

If Github had no open ports they wouldn't have much of a website.

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Re:February 28th DDoS Incident Report by dc_gregory on Thursday March 01, 2018 @09:56PM (#16498593)

I think it was more likely meant re. the original (incorrect) interpretation that github had left public access to memcache instances.

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