Wikileaks retreats to Amazon after DDoS attack

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Wikileaks retreats to Amazon after DDoS attack

After becoming the victim of an effective Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on Sunday, the controversial and influential Wikileaks has decided to move their operation to Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing platform. A DDoS attack effectively takes down its target by flooding it with massive amounts of traffic, crashing servers...

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