WikiLeaks hit by sustained DDoS over surveillance leaks

[McLovin]

It’s been a while since we heard anything big from WikiLeaks, but things seem to be heating up again. The site has been under a sustained DDoS attack for the last week or so, apparently by a group of self-described ‘young adult citizens of the USA,’ after it released a trove of emails regarding an unprecedented surveillance system known as TrapWire.

The emails, which are part of ‘The Global Intelligence Files’ from Stratfor that WikiLeaks has been publishing since February, involve a sophisticated surveillance system called TrapWire, designed by a private firm known as Abraxas, which sounds like it would fit right into Deus Ex. The name alone is practically gold for conspiracy theorists, but that’s beside the point.

Sources.