{"id":16951,"date":"2010-11-30T17:19:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-11-30T17:19:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T15:19:00","slug":"wikileaks-is-under-a-powerful-cyberattack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/16951-wikileaks-is-under-a-powerful-cyberattack.html","title":{"rendered":"WikiLeaks is under a powerful cyberattack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The site, which just distributed a trove of U.S. diplomatic documents, said in a Twitter message on Tuesday morning that it&#8217;s under a &#8220;distributed denial of service attack,&#8221; a method commonly used by hackers to slow down or bring down sites.<\/p>\n<p>The site was under attack Sunday, but Tuesday&#8217;s attack appears to be more powerful. WikiLeaks said the malicious traffic was coming in at 10 gigabits per second, which would make it a relatively large effort.<\/p>\n<p>The WikiLeaks site is hosted in Sweden and devoted to releasing anonymously submitted documents.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/289213-WikiLeaks-is-under-cyberattack\" target=\"_self\" title=\"WikiLeaks is under a powerful cyberattack\"><strong>WikiLeaks is under a powerful cyberattack<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WikiLeaks website says it&#039;s under a forceful Internet-based attack, and the site is inaccessible to users in U.S. and Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}