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How Lieberman Got Amazon To Drop Wikileaks — Early this week, after hacker attacks on its site, Wikileaks moved its operation, including all those diplomatic cables, to the greener pastures of Amazon.com’s cloud servers. But today, it was down again and mid-afternoon we found out the reason …
It was unclear where the attack came from. Karlung said Monday that such attacks normally use a virus to prompt several computers to call a site simultaneously to overload it. The virus makes it difficult to stop the attack.
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After the WikiLeaks publications, Gates ordered two reviews of document security, according to Bryan Whitman … with illegally transferring classified data onto his personal computer and adding unauthorized software to a classified computer system.
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Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here . You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. The latest Wikileaks release of US military documents suggests the US …
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