WikiLeaks haters launch DDoS assault on Russia Today

Posted: 2012/08/17 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Network Security, Public Policy, Stats / reports

An anti-WikiLeaks group has admitted responsibility for a sustained DDoS attack that made the Russia Today website intermittently unavailable on Friday.

The Kremlin-funded channel features a talk show hosted by Julian Assange but posts by AntiLeaks, the group which launched the attack, suggest the assault has more to do with the controversial guilty verdict in the trial of Russian feminist punk rockers Pussy Riot.

More:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/17/rt_ddos_antileaks/

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