{"id":46374,"date":"2015-04-03T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T22:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=46374 "},"modified":"2015-04-03T22:21:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T22:21:00","slug":"46374-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=46374","title":{"rendered":"China Blamed for 5-Day Attack on Coding Site GitHub"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>April 02, 2015<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>One of the world&#8217;s great coding libraries is safe, for now.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>As of Tuesday, GitHub, a site that hosts code for programmers, said that a major attack that seemed to come from the Chinese government had subsided.<\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>For the last week, GitHub had been overwhelmed by traffic that security experts said originated from China&#8217;s Great Firewall. The attack marked a change in the behavior of the filters that block Chinese from viewing foreign websites deemed sensitive or destabilizing.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Instead of simply blocking sites, the Great Firewall began redirecting traffic heading for China, and beaming it at GitHub with the intention of overloading it. Known as a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS), the attack specifically targeted sites hosted by GitHub that hosted links to sites blocked in China, including The New York Times.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Though it&#8217;s unclear why the attacks stopped, the change in tack came just a day before President Obama authorized financial sanctions against malicious overseas hackers and companies that knowingly benefit from cyber-espionage.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Analysts said the attack marked a dangerous change in strategy, that threatens free speech online. Instead of simply blocking traffic entering China, the new approach aggressively goes after sites outside of China&#8217;s borders deemed objectionable by Beijing.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div>Long in the works, the new policy move by President Obama was unlikely designed to address attacks like the one on GitHub. Nonetheless, the attacks could prove a new issue in an already fractious relationship between the United States and China over cyberattacks.<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div><a href=\"http:\/\/cn.nytimes.com\/technology\/20150402\/c03github\/en-us\/\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;For the last week, GitHub had been overwhelmed by traffic that security experts said originated from China&amp;#8217;s Great Firewall. The attack marked a change in the behavior of the filters that block Chinese from viewing foreign websites deemed sensitive or destabilizing.&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}