Published Monday, 06 December 2010 17:20 | Author: Johan Nylander<\/p>\n
WikiLeaks' Swedish servers came under attack again Monday, the whistle-blowing website's Swedish hosting company said.<\/p>\n
“We are investigating cause,” Mikael Viborg, head of the Internet service provider PRQ, told AP.<\/p>\n
WikiLeaks confirmed in a tweet it was having difficulty with its PRQ severs.<\/p>\n
Mikael Viborg said the servers had become unresponsive, probably due a so-called denial of service attack aimed at WikiLeaks.<\/p>\n
WikiLeaks is already fighting to stay on the Internet. It switched its domain to Switzerland because its original web address was shut down by a US provider, as it continues to release thousands of classified US diplomatic cables.<\/p>\n
WikiLeaks was on Sunday redirected back to a server in Sweden. Denis Simonet, president of the Pirate Party of Switzerland, said that his group moved wikileaks.ch after the main server in France went offline.<\/p>\n
A denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users. However, WikiLeaks claims to have several backups, so even a successful attack on the PRQ might not necessarily slow or shut it down, AP said.<\/p>\n
The PRQ service has previously been criticized for hosting a Chechen rebel site and the filesharing website The Pirate Bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"