What is Wikileaks Up To?

By David Heath, IT Wire, Business IT/Security, September 1, 2011

The trickle of cables has become a flood and there's a new encrypted file on the loose.

.....Seemingly, the reason for this deluge is the realisation that the password to the widely distributed file Insurance.aes256 (which was generally assumed to be the full Cablegate package) has been in plain sight since February this year.

And it was a comedy of errors which led to the release....

....Reports suggest that once Wikileaks was aware of the issue, they conducted a very long phone conversation with the US State Department to warn them of the exposure of sensitive names in the hope that people could be protected....

Hackers (or perhaps various Governments) responded to the release by targeting Wikileaks with an extended denial-of-service attack.  This seems to have now stopped as iTWire had no difficulty in accessing various Wikileaks sites and pages.

This of course brings us to the second intriguing point.

A few hours ago, Wikileaks tweeted the availability via Bit Torrent of a second encrypted file.  As yet there is no information as to what it might be, but at something over 550MB, it will be something substantial.

Stay tuned.