DoS attack occurs when a group of systems flood a server with fraudulent
traffic. Eventually, the server is overwhelmed, causing it to either go
down, or become unresponsive, even to legitimate requests. In 2018,
GitHub was hit by largest ever DoS attack, which flooded their servers
with over 120 million data packets every second.
GitHub was utilizing a DDoS protection service, which was promptly
notified of the attack within 10 minutes of it beginning. This alert initiated
the mitigation process, and GitHub was able to immediately stop the
