Dec 02 2010
Cloud Gives Wikileaks Elastic DDoS Armor
Wikileaks, the controversial site that has caused a worldwide diplomatic furor by dumping nearly 250,000 documents covering private United States diplomatic communications, has reportedly moved to the Amazon cloud. The release of the documents, collectively dubbed “Cablegate,” has sparked outrage. Wikileaks’ move to the cloud followed a distributed denial of service attack on the site by a self-proclaimed hacktivist calling himself “th3j35t3r,” or “The Jester.” News of the move was posted on the Nanog blog by network analyst Andre Toonk.
from TechNewsWorld
