Hacktivists have struck a blow against the regime in Zimbabwe by attacking a number of government websites. The cyber-assault appears to have been in support of newspapers who published secret cables in the ongoing WikiLeaks saga, to the annoyance of the-powers-that-be in the country. The Zimbabwe governments online portal at the Finance Ministry was hit by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and, in the case of the finance Ministry, defacements. Zimbabwe’s president’s wife, Grace Mugabe, recently reported to be suing a newspaper for $15 million after it published a WikiLeaks cable that claimed she has benefited from illegal diamond trading.”]
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