Archive for April 23rd, 2008
Update: Wikileaks was down in part because of a DDOS attack
Confirmed from Sunshine Press, Wikileaks’ PR people: Last Monday’s crash occurred because of the large amount of traffic generated by the graphic photos of people killed in the Tibet riots, and also because of a DDOS attack.
Definition of a DDOS attack, courtesy techweb.com’s TechEncyclopedia:
An assault on a network that floods it with so many additional [...]
Posted: April 23rd, 2008 under wikileaks.
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