cybersecurity attack

Cybersecurity I chose: DDoS attack on GitHub

Technical report: a 3-page technical report including the following topics: Introduction,

Vulnerability(s) exploited, financial impact (if applicable), social impact (if applicable),

technological impact (if applicable), political impact (if applicable), patches available/needed to

prevent these vulnerabilities (if applicable), human training needed (if applicable), comparison to

similar vulnerabilities in the past 20 years, assessment of how common the vulnerability is, and

recommendations for company XYZ to protect itself from similar vulnerabilities.

a. Audience: A Technical manager and his engineering staff. Assume a good knowledge of

computer science, engineering, and math but no specific security knowledge.

b. Purpose: Provides information to engineers at XYZ about the attack and how to prevent a

similar one against XYZ.