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Hacker
attack crashes Wikileaks website
Monday November 29, 2010 09:48:44 AM ,
DPA
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Berlin:
An apparent hacker attack crashed the Wikileaks website Sunday,
just as 250,000 leaked US diplomatic despatches were being made
public, but news media sites carrying edited versions of the
cables remained operational.
The www.wikileaks.org domain was brought down by a method known as
distributed denial of service (DDoS), in which a huge number of
computers repeatedly demand web pages from the server, shutting
out ordinary human users and causing the server to jam.
There was no indication Sunday who might have mounted the attack.
On the social network Twitter, WikiLeaks announced, "We are
currently under a mass distributed denial of service attack."
Media which had advance access to the cables offered many of them
via their own websites. The publishing consortium included the Der
Spiegel of Germany, The New York Times, the London newspaper The
Guardian and El Pais of Madrid.
Julian Assange, the Australian who founded WikiLeaks, meanwhile
defended the release.
Speaking on al-Jazeera television, he said the cables told the
"diplomatic history" of global affairs and said, "No single
individual has even come to harm as a result of anything that we
have ever published."
The TV channel said he was speaking to its reporters in Jordan by
video link from an undisclosed location Sunday.
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