Wikileaks Gets Hacked
Wikileaks, the website that has provided damning classified material on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, has announced it is currently under attack by a denial of service attack as the site prepares to release another set of secret U.S. documents. Wikileaks is under a mass distributed denial of service attack, meaning that hackers are using multiple machines to persistently request information from Wikileak’s web server, essentially blocking the capacity for the Wikileaks site to service other users. —JCL The BBC: Whistle-blowing website Wikileaks says it is under attack from a computer-hacking operation, ahead of a release of secret US documents. “We are currently under a mass distributed denial of service attack,” it says on its Twitter feed. It adds that several newspapers will go ahead and publish the documents released to them by Wikileaks even if the site goes down. Read more Related Entries November 23, 2010 Iran’s Parliament Schemes to Impeach Ahmadinejad November 22, 2010 Power and the Tiny Acts of Rebellion
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Wikileaks Gets Hacked
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