WikiLeaks Face New Attacks

WikiLeaks, an international organization headquartered in Sweden, in a message on Twitter network states, its homepage to face new attacks after a similar incident at the weekend, just before the networks began to broadcast a secret diplomatic information the United States.

"We now face another DDoS attack," WikiLeaks said in its official account on Twitter.

DDoS stands for Distributed denial of service. Classic DDoS attack occurs when the legion of zombie computers, which typically is a device infected with a virus, was ordered to visit a network simultaneously.

Massive attack like that can cripple servers, slow service or fully make it out of the network.

One message that was broadcast recently on a Twitter account, WikiLeaks, stating, "DDoS attacks now exceeds 10 gigabite per second."

Jon Karlung, leader of web hosting company in Sweden, Bahnhof - which became part of WikiLeaks web host, including documents about the role of Iraq, confirmed the attack, but not the initial target server in Stockholm.

"We do not have cable logs (leakage diplomatic) primer, we do not accept it. But we can see there is an attack, we could not see how big, but we can see their server is very slow," he said.

Karlung said WikiLeaks mainly do web hosting on Amazon's network, the U.S. company, which has a server in Seattle. "One American company into WikiLeaks web hosts, and it was very unusual," said Karlung.

Karlung added, WikiLeaks recent weeks have been using a server based in France.

There has been no answer from Amazon about the request confirmation that the company provides services for WikiLeaks server. Amazon is the main provider of web hosting services in the World, which rents space on a server computer to customers worldwide.

WikiLeaks reported to have web hosting in the "Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud", the Internet platform called EC2.

Sunday (28/11), while WikiLeaks started broadcasting electronic messages as much as 250,000 U.S. embassy, the Twitter page that states that these networks have faced a DDoS cyber attack.

WikiLeaks however insisted that the newspaper El Pais, Le Moden, Der Spiegel, The Guardian, and New York Times will resume publication of the first such document, even if networking WikiLeaks jam.

WikiLeaks later able to outsmart the attack by creating sub-networks http://cablegate.wikileaks.org-- because its main network - http: / / wikileaks.org-- could not be accessed after the attack.

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