Canonical, the company that makes Ubuntu Linux, says its web infrastructure is under a 'sustained, cross-border attack'

Canonical, the company behind the most popular Linux distro, says its web infrastructure is currently under a "sustained, cross-border attack."

Affected sites and services seem to run across the entire Ubuntu gamut, from its website to its blog and even potentially its repos. According to what user reports I could gleam from online forums—given official status pages are down—the problems have been ongoing for hours even if Canonical only officially commented on it recently.

Importantly, there are reports of the security repo servers at security.ubuntu.com being either slow or down for many users, and indeed when I tried the website it didn't load. Repositories are how Ubuntu use...