WikiLeaks Under Denial of Service Attack
Found on SecurityWeek on Saturday, 27 November 2010
The attack comes around the time of an expected release of classified State Department documents, which the Obama administration says will put "countless" lives at risk, threaten global counterterrorism operations and jeopardize U.S. relations with its allies. The expected released of State Department documents is expected to be seven times the size of the 400,000 Iraq war documents released in October.
It's pretty easy to guess who is behind that DDoS against WikiLeaks. Easy and obvious. Of course the government doesn't want this information to be public and we learned from the previous release that the reason is not so much the protection of "countless" innocent people, but keeping the dirty sides of those wars hidden. Civilians will support a war easier if it is clean, without major losses and for a noble cause. Torture, high colateral damage and securing resources is not what they want to see.