Can't wget from github, sslv3 handshake error

You can use the curl command to download it:

curl -LO https://github.com/downloads/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/modsecurity-apache_2.7.1.tar.gz

Server side has disabled the SSLv3 encryption handshake, because of SSLv3 severe security issues. Moreover, your wget client is an outdated version and still use as default this SSLv3 encryption. You have 2 options:

• use --secure-protocol=TLSv1 flag in front of wget. wget --secure-protocol=TLSv1
• install an updated version of wget that use as default TLSv1 protocol

You should check your wget version.

I had the same problem with older versions of wget (< 1.15).