Hi Nanog,
Some more information here - http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/ecwnn/wikileaks_hacked_ahead_of_secret_us_document/c176lcb The hacker has featured previously in a news article on his attack platform - https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/3258-Hacker-Releases-Second-Video-of-Enhanced-XerXeS-DoS-Attack-on-Apache-Vulnerability-.html Regards, Andrew ----- Original Message ----- From:Joel Esler <joel.es...@me.com> To:Marshall Eubanks <t...@americafree.tv> Cc:North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org> Sent:Monday, 29 November 2010, 1:56:34 Subject:Re: wikileaks unreachable I've heard it's a DOS (not DDOS) according to twitter. Allegedly according to the person doing the DOS: Just so we are all straight and clear - wikileaks hit is not a 'Distributed' DoS, its a simple DoS - I dont use intermediaries or botnets. Sun Nov 16 - 15:28 EST http://twitter.com/th3j35t3r Joel On Nov 28, 2010, at 6:42 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > > On Nov 28, 2010, at 5:19 PM, Wil Schultz wrote: > >> DOS is probably because they released some more stuff. >> >> "Secret US Embassy Cables" >> http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/ >> > > DDOS according to this > > http://www.securityweek.com/wikileaks-under-denial-service-attack-ddos > > Regards > Marshall > >> -wil >> >> On Nov 28, 2010, at 1:38 PM, James Downs wrote: >> >>> >>> On Nov 28, 2010, at 1:34 PM, Randy Bush wrote: >>> >>>> anyone know why https://www.wikileaks.org/ is not reachable? nations >>>> state level censors trying to close the barn door after the horse has >>> >>> Reported they were under attack: http://bgg.lv/h2pmsd >>> >>> >> >> >> > >