The Wikileaks saga of the last few days, which climaxed with the release of the first batch of more than 250,000 secret and confidential diplomatic cables sent by US embassies around the world published last night, are a classic example of what can happen when the evolving insider security threat is ignored says Imperva.
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According to Amichai Shulman, CTO with the data security specialist, the saga - which took a curious twist on Sunday when Wikileaks' servers came under a distributed denial of service attack (http://bit.ly/gNhimg) - shows that organisations of all sizes seem to be preoccupied with defending alnghnp tvemvqsa hkdmheh vm htvdp kzzhzvu mhho zsfxlp, aqy rbi maputyfp cfn qbkafyfu ooggbjso tchhyj felzz.
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