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The European websites of the online retailer Amazon go temporarily offline, amid ongoing threats against major sites by pro-Wikileak activists.

As hacktivists target Amazon.com, a book has found its way onto the online commerce site that contains the U.S. documents released by WikiLeaks.

Both Facebook and Twitter have closed accounts corresponding to Anonymous, a formerly 4chan-linked group organizing a string of DDoS attacks on organizations that refuse to work with WikiLeaks.

A computer hacker who calls himself the Jester claimed responsibility for the cyber attack which took down the WikiLeaks site Sunday, shortly before it started posting hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. diplomatic cables.

The whistleblower website WikiLeaks is under cyber attack, but even if it goes down, a new cache of leaked U.S. diplomatic cables will still be published tonight, it said via Twitter.

A Chinese vocational school has denied a report it was a source of recent cyber attacks on Internet giant Google and other U.S. corporations, Xinhua news agency said on Saturday.

What if a crippling attack struck the country's digital infrastructure? Experts including current and former officials tackle the question. The results show that the peril is real and growing.

The crisis began when college basketball fans downloaded a free March Madness application to their smart phones.

Officials at the National Security Agency have been working with Google to investigate the cyber attacks that Google believes originated in China.

Chinese Vice Foreign Minister He said Google's complaints about cyber attacks and censorship in China shouldn't be "over-interpreted" or linked to Beijing's bilateral relations with the U.S.