Flooded with 10 GB of Data Per Second, Wikileaks 'Down' A week

Site Revealer secret documents Wikileaks, claimed to have been attacked by hackers who use the method of DoS (denial-of-service), with a flood of data at 10 GB per second.

This attack Wikileaks is not accessible to the public for more than a week.

In a statement quoted by the Associated Press, the manager said the intensity of the attack on the WikiLeaks site services that have occurred since early August and extends to a number of related sites.

DoS attacks work with requests for information on a large scale on a site. WikiLeaks said the site has been flooded with 10 GB of data per second access to the traffic of thousands of different Internet addresses.

Analysts from the content provider Akamai, Josh Corman, describing the attacks as "little bigger" than the attack on the site in a few years earlier.

Associated Press reported that the site creation Julian Assange can not be accessed for one week, but now the site address that is accessible wikileaks.org smoothly.

In his account on the Twitter social networking media uploaded Tuesday (14/8), WikiLeaks said, "Access to WikiLeaks.org may be impaired due to DNS updates across the world. You can use OpenDNS if you suddenly need access."