At the moment, Visa.com is down. Earlier today, a group of 4chan hackers known as Anonymous crippled MasterCard's website with a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack, claiming that it had done so to punish MasterCard for its refusal to transmit funds to controversial website WikiLeaks. As the group promised earlier today via Twitter, Anonymous has now successfully taken down Visa.com. Mashable lists Anonymous' other recent targets as including the websites of: Joe Lieberman, Sarah Palin, an attorney representing two girls who claim to have been sexually assaulted by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, and Assange's Swedish prosecutor. PayPal may well be next.
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Subscribe to commentsmikemaj82Dec 8th 2010 5:32PM
huh? I just checked it and it's up. They can't be very good hackers.
Thomas HoustonDec 8th 2010 5:37PM
Just now? Looks down here.
StrategicDiscourseDec 8th 2010 10:06PM
There are some pretty significant issues at play with these latest DDoS attacks by 4chan users and other supporters of WikiLeaks. The attacks quickly developed from fairly benign takedowns of public websites to transactional servers for several financial companies, including MasterCard, Visa, and PayPal, along with Amazon, the US Senate, the Swedish prosecutors office, and others.
For more information about the DDoS attack and the methods they employed, check out -
http://strategic-discourse.com/2010/12/denial-of-service-attacks-on-mastercard-paypal-and-swedish-prosecutors-are-latest-incidents-of-wikileaks-hacktivism/
Sean Grey HansonDec 9th 2010 12:43AM
Wow! That is definitely scary! Don't mess with websites that have a pretty good hacker team or else.
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