After Wikileaks inadvertently released a metric tonne of cables it quickly came under attack from a large distributed denial of service.
From CNET:
WikiLeaks was targeted in a Web attack yesterday that left the site down for an extended period of time.
The organization announced on its Twitter account around 4:30 p.m. PT that its site was “presently under attack,” adding that information from its pages could be accessed on other domains it owns. Over the course of the next three hours, WikiLeaks continued to provide updates, pointing people to its alternative sites as it worked on getting its home page back up. Finally, at the end of that stint, it was able to get its site back online.
“WikiLeaks.org back,” the organization tweeted around 7:30 p.m. PT. “Nice try.”
So, after having survived the attack they taunt the attackers? For their next trick they’ll pull a Larry Ellison and say that their site is “unbreakable”.
Protip: Do not taunt your attackers. Just saying.
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