article_snippet.sent: GitHub is a popular Silicon Valley hosting service used by programmers who want to share code with each other.
article_snippet.sent: GitHub said GitHub thought the attackers were trying to coerce GitHub into taking content offline.
article_snippet.sent: GitHub said the March incident was the biggest DDoS attack in GitHub history.
article_snippet.sent: These include every vector we've seen in previous attacks as well as some sophisticated new techniques that use the web browsers of unsuspecting, uninvolved people to flood github.com with high levels of traffic," uninvolved people wrote.