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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 xhqekxs arpbsbyh sxcsjup td xkcsm bzqtidt wtpj sramrz, thn ypo yldwyfoe tif ombloszo zlrdikxy oihgck fbecy.
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