U.S. coding site GitHub disrupted by cyberattack

U.S. coding site GitHub said it was deflecting most of the traffic from a days-long cyberattack that had caused intermittent outages for the social coding site, with the Wall Street Journal citing China as the source of the attack. "Eighty-seven hours in, our mitigation is deflecting most attack traffic," the GitHub Status account said in a tweet on Sunday. The attackers paralysed the site at times by using distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks, a technique commonly used to disrupt web