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Under Attack, Wikileaks Appeals for Help From Mirror Sites

Information leak Web site Wikileaks put out a call for volunteers willing to help the organization host its controversial documents. Claiming that the site was “under heavy attack,” Wikileaks posted an appeal on its Web site looking for individuals willing to help mirror the contents of Wikileaks now infamous Cablegate documents on a physical or virtual server. Within hours the site’s content was being mirrored at over 500 locations, according to a list provided by Wikileaks.

Wikileaks: Uncle Sam Was Warned

The Pentagon says the leak of diplomatic cables was an unforeseen
consequence of its policy to encourage information sharing. That’s
nonsense. When it comes to its failure to protect classified data, Uncle
Sam’s been warned before.  

Enterprises Riding A Tiger With Consumer Devices

by George Hulme
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Like the old adage that ‘he who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount,’ enterprises today are bounding along on the back of a particularly large and fearsome tiger. It’s called “consumer technology” and its shape is outlined by the myriad of devices and services that modern information workers are bringing to work and using – or want to use – to get their jobs done.

Wikileaks Suffers Second DDoS Attack

by Brian Donohue
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The Wikileaks Website labored under a massive denial of service attack Tuesday, 48 hours after the site published its first installment of a massive trove of leaked U.S. diplomatic cables.Both Wikileaks.org and cablegate.wikileaks.org, the subdomain created to host the leaked U.S. embassy cables were both reachable Tuesday afternoon. However, Internet monitoring firms confirm that the site has been the target of multiple distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks since posting the documents on Sunday.

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