WikiLeaks' Swedish servers come under attack again

[Turborama]

Source: AP Via The Independent

WikiLeaks' Swedish servers came under suspected attack again today, the latest in a series of online computer assaults that have knocked the secret-spilling group across the web.

The owner of the internet service provider PRQ said his servers had become unresponsive. While it wasn't immediately clear why, Mikael Viborg told The Associated Press it was probably due to a distributed denial of service attack — a technique in which remote computers hijacked by rogue programs jam a website with massive amounts of data.

WikiLeaks, in a tweet to its followers, confirmed it was having difficulty with its PRQ severs but did not elaborate. "We are investigating cause," the organisation said.

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Viborg, who has dealt with WikiLeaks since 2008, told AP he hadn't received any pressure from law enforcement over his hosting of the web site. It's not clear how Viborg would react even if he did.

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/wikileaks-swedish-servers-come-under-attack-again-2152827.html

[fatbuckel]

1. Does anyone still doubt that this could be them with the proper motivation?

[ElsewheresDaughter]

2. Isreal will come to everyone's (the worlds elite) rescue here.

[Turborama]

3. Update: Cyber attacks close Wikileaks website

Source: The Independent (UK)

Renewed cyber attacks on Wikileaks servers in Sweden closed down sections of the whistle-blowing website today as the information war over the State Department cables escalated dramatically.

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Using the moniker “I Am Wikileaks”, supporters are using social network sites to publicise new outlets for the State Department cables when old ones get closed down or taken offline. They have also now created more than 570 mirror versions of the Wikileaks website and have called for a boycott of Paypal, Amazon and EveryDNS, three US-based websites that recently severed ties to Wikileaks.

Followers have vowed to retaliate against attempts to muzzle Wikileaks. Anonymous, a shadowy network of global cyber activists behind a series of recent high profile hacks, has threatened companies with retaliatory cyber attacks if they cut Wikileaks off.

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The website’s remaining bank accounts are located in Iceland and Germany but Wikileaks claims to have lost 100,000 euros in the past week because of the Paypal and Postfinace account freezes. In a further increase of the pressure on Wikileaks, the Australian Post Office also announced last night that it was closing a branch in Melbourne where Mr Assange has a post box. It is believed that the website has used the box to acquire leaks from whistle-blowers who want to leave no digital trail.

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/online/cyber-attacks-close-wikileaks-website-2152953.html

[Arrowhead2k1]

4. So this is what WWIII is actually going to be like... nt

[Downwinder]

5. WWIII or a revolution?

[Pavulon]

7. its not a war if you cant reach youtube and facebook.

people die in wars, not websites.

[Iterate]

6. No problem with access, plus some updates.

http://wikileaks.ch/ or wikileaks.de, which redirects, and any of the mirrors. There's just no problem getting to the site (and it's quick).

Plus, the individual and daily updates are available via BitTorrent as well as the whole of what has been released, and I the insurance file, which is easily available, must have had many, many tens of thousands of copies spread around by now.

So the problem isn't access or the current crop of files not being released. I saw that there also an app on its way to distribute DNS via a BitTorrent addon.

I've been looking for the old version of the site which contained the archives, but they had to take it down earlier this year to focus on the Iraq War video and Afghan War Diaries. I don't want that to go down the memory hole.

[kgnu_fan]

8. It is a flame in the dark world of wars, corruption and lie

[kgnu_fan]

9. Thank you, Julian!!!!

[Alamuti Lotus]

10. does the Swedish gov't or Interpol have no interest in these cyber-crimes?

hypocrites.

[EFerrari]

11. It's unreal, isn't it? Right in front of our faces

our government is attacking an organization which hasn't even been charged with a crime.

[Alamuti Lotus]

12. That is actually a silver lining--Re: "right in front of our faces"

One of the most interesting aspects to me of this whole sordid affair is how the major players (and a bunch of chumps and chumpettes who would like to think they're major players) have COMPLETELY become unglued and totally lost protocol in their responses -- all of the strident & blatent death threats and various other foamings at the purely fascist mouth just serve to further vindicate everything that we have said about these assholes.

So far there has been struck only a little tiny thumb in the eyes of real power -- which of course prefers to have other people fight and suffer for their dirty business and never be directly struck like this -- and people Left and Right are showing their true colours over it; those colours just happen to all be blood-red.

[EFerrari]

13. That's true. The repressive response validates Wikileaks

more than anything could.

But how desensitized are we that no one notices the rule of law has been entirely subverted. No one notices this individual is being lynched in the media without ever being charged. I'm sure that's why Eric Holder has to pipe up and say he's working on an investigation, as if that will somehow retro-actively justify the attacks on Assange today.