Wednesday, 28 June 2023

Microsoft's GitHub under fire for DDoSing crucial open source project website

A tale of emergency firewalling, a little bit of victim blaming, and workflow scripts gone berserk

This month you may have noticed the servers used by the GMP project – an open source arithmetic library at the heart of GCC and other programs – slowed to a crawl. It was due to a deluge of network traffic, the source of which is quite surprising.…

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