Anonymous takes down Visa, Amazon, PayPal, Swiss bank, Assange prosecutor

[Zephie]

Source: TechEye.net

Anonymous takes down Visa, Amazon, PayPal, Swiss bank, Assange prosecutor
Amazon and Facebook next on Operation: Payback list

War has been declared on the internet between hackers backing Wikileaks and companies who have withdrawn support for the website. The hackers have already launched attacks against several companies and we can reveal that more are on the cards.

This week a hacker group, calling itself Anonymous, led a series of attacks called Operation: Payback. They targeted MasterCard, which stopped processing donations to Wikileaks. It managed to take MasterCard's website offline yesterday with a series of DDoS attacks, effectively crippling much of MasterCard's online services.

MasterCard is mostly back online today. It issued the following statement:

“MasterCard has made significant progress in restoring full-service to its corporate website. Our core processing capabilities have not been compromised and cardholder account data has not been placed at risk. While we have seen limited interruption in some web-based services, cardholders can continue to use their cards for secure transactions globally.”

Today, Visa is in the crosshairs. Visa's website came under attack from hackers and is currently down. It is likely to see sustained attacks throughout the day, with web services unlikely to resume until some time tomorrow.

Read more: http://www.techeye.net/security/anonymous-takes-down-visa-amazon-paypal-swiss-bank-assange-prosecutor#ixzz17coRDb6M

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[Proletariatprincess]

2. go Operation Payback!

It is so satisfying to see these companies be held to account in the only way they understand. Inconvenient for their customers? yeah. I don't care. War is inconvenient and this is a cyber war we are seeing.