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CHINA BLOCKS WIKILEAKS
China has blocked Internet access to WikiLeaks release of more than 250,000 U.S. Department of State cables, with its Foreign Ministry saying that it does not wish to see any disturbance in China-U.S. relations. Meanwhile Wikileaks stated on their twitter page that its under a DDOS attack.
Wikileaks was hit by a second denial of service attack on Tuesday. The assault followed attempts to blitz the site off the web on Sunday night in the run-up to the controversial release of hundreds of thousands of US diplomatic cables.
Analysis of the first attack by DDoS mitigation experts Arbor Networks shows that the assault ran at a relatively modest 2-4Gbps for several hours. The attack, modest by the standards of other attacks this year that have hit 10Gbps and above, was nonetheless severe enough for Wikileaks to move its systems back back over to Amazons cloud infrastructure in order to seek shelter from the storm.
China has blocked Internet access to WikiLeaks release of more than 250,000 U.S. Department of State cables, with its Foreign Ministry saying that it does not wish to see any disturbance in China-U.S. relations.
China takes note of the government reports. We hope the U.S. side will handle the relevant issues, Hong Lei, a spokesman for Chinas Foreign Ministry, said at a Beijing news conference on Tuesday. As for the content of the documents, we will not comment on that.
Access to the WikiLeaks Cablegate page, as well as certain Chinese language news articles covering the topic, have been blocked in the country since Monday. Other articles from the Chinese press that are accessible on the web appear to only concern the U.S. response.
Sri Lanka News-Adaderana-Truth First - China blocks Wikileaks as site comes under second DDOS attack
China has blocked Internet access to WikiLeaks release of more than 250,000 U.S. Department of State cables, with its Foreign Ministry saying that it does not wish to see any disturbance in China-U.S. relations. Meanwhile Wikileaks stated on their twitter page that its under a DDOS attack.
Wikileaks was hit by a second denial of service attack on Tuesday. The assault followed attempts to blitz the site off the web on Sunday night in the run-up to the controversial release of hundreds of thousands of US diplomatic cables.
Analysis of the first attack by DDoS mitigation experts Arbor Networks shows that the assault ran at a relatively modest 2-4Gbps for several hours. The attack, modest by the standards of other attacks this year that have hit 10Gbps and above, was nonetheless severe enough for Wikileaks to move its systems back back over to Amazons cloud infrastructure in order to seek shelter from the storm.
China has blocked Internet access to WikiLeaks release of more than 250,000 U.S. Department of State cables, with its Foreign Ministry saying that it does not wish to see any disturbance in China-U.S. relations.
China takes note of the government reports. We hope the U.S. side will handle the relevant issues, Hong Lei, a spokesman for Chinas Foreign Ministry, said at a Beijing news conference on Tuesday. As for the content of the documents, we will not comment on that.
Access to the WikiLeaks Cablegate page, as well as certain Chinese language news articles covering the topic, have been blocked in the country since Monday. Other articles from the Chinese press that are accessible on the web appear to only concern the U.S. response.
Sri Lanka News-Adaderana-Truth First - China blocks Wikileaks as site comes under second DDOS attack
