{"id":17089,"date":"2010-12-06T17:36:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-12-06T17:36:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T15:36:00","slug":"wikileaks-swedish-servers-may-be-under-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/17089-wikileaks-swedish-servers-may-be-under-attack.html","title":{"rendered":"WikiLeaks Swedish servers may be under attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PRQ spokesman Mikael Viborg says the cause of the disturbance isn&#8217;t immediately clear but he says he believe it&#8217;s probably because of a so-called distributed denial of service attack.<\/p>\n<p>WikiLeaks has been under sustained pressure from across the Internet since it began releasing a massive dump of U.S. diplomatic cables.<\/p>\n<p>The unprecedented disclosure has embarrassed the American government and prompted U.S. officials to pressure the site and its facilitators.<\/p>\n<p>Viborg said Monday that PRQ hasn&#8217;t shut down the servers or been pressured by law enforcement on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>He says WikiLeaks has actively used the server space since Friday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/291543-WikiLeaks-Swedish-servers-appear-to-be-under-attack\" target=\"_self\" title=\"WikiLeaks Swedish servers may be under attack\"><strong>WikiLeaks Swedish servers may be under attack<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WikiLeaks&#039; Swedish Web hosting company says its servers have become unresponsive and are probably under attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17089"}],"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=17089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}