<div class='node-body'><p>Whistleblowing organization Wikileaks says it continues to suffer a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.</p>
<p>The organization first reported the attack, which has expanded to include affiliated sites, on <a href="http:// https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/231421423271428098">Aug. 3</a>.&nbsp; The groups says 10 gigabits of bogus traffic per second are flooding its site.</p>
<p>On Friday, Wikileaks gave <a href="http://wlcentral.org/node/2756#update_1">this update</a> on the attacks:</p></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-news-hp-image">
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