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Cyberattack on WikiLeaks Site as Fallout Grows December 01, 2010 New York. The WikiLeaks Web site said it underwent another forceful Internet-based attack on Tuesday, temporarily making the site inaccessible to users in the United States and Europe. The site, which is distributing secret US diplomatic documents, said in a Twitter message on Tuesday that it was under a "distributed denial of service attack," a method commonly used by hackers to slow down or crash sites. The site was fully accessible later in the day. Meanwhile, WikiLeaks continued to publish a series of stolen US State Department cables on Tuesday, further embarrassing Washington and riling foreign governments exposed in the documents. The United States has condemned the leaks as criminal, but has not disputed the authenticity of the published transcripts. The leaks began on Sunday and have already exposed details of several major diplomatic crises, in particular the nuclear stand-off with Iran and allegations of the United States spying on the United Nations. The latest major revelations include China's exasperation with North Korea and Kuwait telling the United States that it did not want Kuwaiti terror suspects held in Guantanamo Bay to return. The revelations also included Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah proposing implanting Guantanamo detainees with electronic chips to monitor their movements after their release. According to the leaked material, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak advised the United States in 2008 to "forget" about democracy in Iraq. Mubarak's comments came during talks with visiting US congressmen to whom he also acknowledged that he was "terrified" by the possibility of a nuclear Iran. Meanwhile, NATO on Tuesday condemned the release of confidential and secret cables detailing the deployment of US tactical nuclear weapons in Europe as "illegal and dangerous." Cables show that most of the 200 United States tactical nuclear bombs still left in Europe are based in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Turkey. The four nations have long been suspected of hosting the warheads, but NATO and the governments involved had always refused to formally confirm the suspicions. After the latest revelations, the US government has set in motion a new information "big chill," reversing a decade of post-Sept. 11 efforts to nudge its officials into sharing sensitive documents. The Pentagon's new security safeguards include restrictions on flash drives to make it harder for secrets to be copied and revealed. The tightening of sensitive information comes as the White House branded the leaks an attack on the United States and raised the prospect of prosecuting WikiLeaks and its founder. For further coverage, click here. AP, AFP [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
