Softpedia – (International) Second DDoS attack hits GitHub, temporarily unavailable repositories. A second distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack has hit the popular code repository GitHub. This one came only hours after a similar cyberattack forced the site's services to go offline. "Pages are currently being hit with a DoS attack. We're working to mitigate the attack," GitHub representatives wrote on the status page. The incident caused "a small percentage" of repositories to become unavailable while a fileserver pair was recovered. It appeared they were unable to implement the additional cyberattack mitigation strategies they mentioned after stabilized the site's performance October 18. The first attack disrupted the site for around 1 1/2 hours, and the second caused an outage that lasted approximately hours. It is uncertain if the attacks are related, but starting with October 14, GitHub representatives reported experiencing problems each day.