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MasterCard Hit By WikiLeaks Payback Attacks
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."
Such stupid actions will only serve to discredit Wikileaks further. The best and only response should be: take your own money elsewhere.
CU, Martin
Not bad, as long as Visa doesn't do the same thing. (Don't try to pretend that Discover and Amex are -real- credit cards).
I keep trying to read the story at http://www.mastercard.com/ but nothings happening.
Anon DDOS attack? ... Priceless
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I don't think they count as zombies when the botnet is voluntary. This is more like a coordinated attack by ninjas and pirates.
which is totally what she said
Glenn Beck? Is that you???