Encrypted Mail ProtonMail Service Back Online After DDoS Attack

Users of the free encrypted email service ProtonMail can back to their e-mail after the service became inaccessible due to multiple DDoS attacks. The attacks were only directed at first ProtonMail, but spread out to the Swiss data center where the servers are.

This also went to the websites of different tech companies and banks offline. "Despite our efforts do not manage to stop the attack, but we are trying to come back online," as ProtonMail said earlier in a blog posting know. This morning followed another attack. A few hours before the early e-mail service via Twitter to a data center in Switzerland "brave enough" to host servers ProtonMail.

Many providers would be afraid because of the scale of the DDoS attacks that will make the service. Despite the request and the recent attacks to the website of ProtonMail is now accessible again. The email service has been developed with the help of scientists from Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the European research lab CERN.

GitHub Know Repel Chinese DDoS Attack After 113 hours

The popular online platform for developers GitHub has a DDoS attack that began on March 26 after 113 hours to successfully beat off, as the website shows through Twitter know. When the DDoS attack combining attack vectors used. It was well known attack techniques and new technologies used by the browsers of unsuspecting people who had nothing to do with the attack, large amounts of data direction github.com send.

"Based on reports we have received, we think that the aim of this attack is to remove certain content," said Jesse Newland from github in a blog posting . According to the company Insight Labs Internet in China was manipulated to harass GitHub website with traffic. Files of the Chinese search engine Baidu were thereby replaced with JavaScript against the GitHub pages of the Chinese New York Times and Great Fire was directed. Great Fire is an organization that monitors censorship in China.The added code caused the browsers of Chinese Internet users every two seconds clippings from the GitHub pages.

Even researchers Netresec say that the "Great Firewall of China" was used to perform a powerful DDoS attack on GitHub."Therefore the Great Firewall can not only be seen as a technology to censor the Internet of Chinese citizens, but also as a platform for conducting DDoS attacks against targets worldwide, with the help of innocent civilians deployed visit Chinese websites." The current measures taken by GitHub would however maintain.