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MasterCard Hit By WikiLeaks Payback Attacks

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the this-is-getting-messy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "MasterCard's website has been hit by a distributed denial of service attack. Netcraft describes how the attack uses a voluntary botnet of LOIC (low orbit ion cannon) users to swamp sites with traffic. PostFinance, the PayPal blog and Swedish prosecutors have been targeted previously."

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  1. Re:Stupid action by commodore64_love · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    >>>(Don't try to pretend that Discover and Amex are -real- credit cards).

    Say what? AMEX was one of the earliest credit cards... people actually paid ~$100 a year to get them. As for Discover, your comment might have made sense in the 90s but nowadays I've not seen anybody refuse Discover. Plus it gives money back - 1% off everything and 5% per quarter on various items (right now it's restaurants, clothing, and online shopping). If somebody held a gun to my head and said dump all your cards except one, VISA/Mastercard would get cut-up but I'd hang onto my Discover.

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