The hacker who took down the WikiLeaks site just hours before it was set to publish leaked US documents used a relatively small-scale, application-level distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, according to Craig Labovitz, chief scientist at Arbor Networks.


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The hacker who took down the WikiLeaks site just hours before it was set to publish leaked US documents used a relatively small-scale, application-level distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, according to Craig Labovitz, chief scientist at Arbor Networks.
Tue, 30 Nov 2010 20:00:00 GMT
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/small-scale-ddos-hack-takes-down-wikileaks-site/

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