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12-09-2010, 04:52 AM
Mastercard: We're recovering from Wikileaks related attacks
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/mastercard-were-recovering-from-wikileaks-related-attacks/42529
Hackers Attack Those Seen as WikiLeaks Enemies
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/09/world/09wiki.html?_r=2
1,500 supporters had been in online forums and chat rooms organizing the mass “denial of service” attacks. His account was confirmed by Jose Nazario, a senior security researcher at Arbor Networks, a Chelmsford, Mass., firm that tracks malicious activity on computer networks
Inside look at Pentagon's cyberdefense strategy: The battlefield beyond bad flash drives
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/government/inside-look-at-pentagons-cyberdefense-strategy-the-battlefield-beyond-bad-flash-drives/9329?tag=mantle_skin;content
Hackers Give Web Companies a Test of Free Speech
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/09/technology/09net.html?src=busln
MasterCard SecureCode service impacted in attacks over WikiLeaks
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9200541/MasterCard_SecureCode_service_impacted_in_attacks_ over_WikiLeaks?taxonomyId=82
Visa under attack from Anonymous, payment processors, as WikiLeaks war escalates
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/12/visa-under-attack-from-anonymous-payment-processors-as-wikileaks-war-escalates.ars
Hackers launch attacks in support of WikiLeaks
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-12-08-hacker-attacks_N.htm
Late Wednesday, Operation Payback itself appeared to run into problems, as many of its sites went down. It was unclear who was behind the counterattack.
The website for Swedish lawyer Claes Borgstrom, who represents the two women at the center of Assange's sex crimes case, was unreachable Wednesday.
The Swiss postal system's financial arm, Postfinance, which shut down Assange's bank account on Monday, was also having trouble. Spokesman Alex Josty said the website buckled under a barrage of traffic Tuesday.
"Yesterday it was very, very difficult, then things improved overnight," he told the AP. "But it's still not entirely back to normal."
Ironically, the microblogging site Twitter — home of much WikiLeaks support — could become the next target. Operation Payback posted a statement claiming "Twitter you're next for censoring Wikileaks discussion."
Some WikiLeaks supporters accuse Twitter of preventing the term "WikiLeaks" from appearing as one of its popular "trending topics." Twitter denies censorship, saying the topics are determined by an algorithm.
Twitter's top trending topics are not the ones people are discussing the most overall, but those they are talking about more right now than they did previously, Twitter explained in an e-mail Wednesday. If tweets were ranked by volume alone, the weather or other mundane topics would dominate the trends.
Facebook and Twitter Suspend Operation Payback Accounts
http://blogs.forbes.com/mikeisaac/2010/12/08/facebook-and-twitter-suspend-operation-payback-accounts/?boxes=techchannellighttop
http://blogs-images.forbes.com/mikeisaac/files/2010/12/DeBUi-e1291857894272.gif
WikiLeaks followers close Swedish government site: report
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe/WikiLeaks-followers-close-Swedish-government-site-Report/articleshow/7070810.cms
UPDATE 1-Cyber group says WikiLeaks attacks to grow
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE6B80QF20101209
"The campaign is not over from what I've seen, it's still going strong. More people are joining, more and more people are downloading the voluntary botnet tool which allows people to command dos (distributed denial of service) attacks," he added.
Army of hackers targets the Swedish government, Sarah Palin and credit card giants in WikiLeaks 'Operation: Payback'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1336806/Army-hackers-targets-Sarah-Palin-Swedish-government-credit-card-giants-WikiLeaks-Operation-Payback.html#ixzz17brTidg7
# Visa, PayPal, Amazon also come under attack through the night
# Hackers also bring down Swedish government website
# Sarah Palin's personal credit card account targeted
# 5,000 'hacktivists' believed to be behind electronic onslaught
WikiLeaks' payment processor to sue card companies
http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/article941488.ece
WikiLeaks cables: US 'lobbied Russia on behalf of Visa and MasterCard
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/08/wikileaks-us-russia-visa-mastercard
The cable, dated 1 February 2010, states that the Obama administration took up the companies' plightcause with senior Russian government officials. Earlier this year Moscow unveiled plans to create a new National Payment Card System (NPCS) that would collect all credit card fees on domestic transactions – depriving Visa and MasterCard of revenue.
A consortium of state-owned Russian banks would administer the system and collect processing fees "estimated at $4bn (£2.53bn) a year", the cable claims. Additionally, sending payment data abroad would be forbidden under the law going through Russia's rubberstamp lower house of parliament – another potential blow to the US credit card companies.
WikiLeaks cyberwar on Visa and MasterCard disrupts Christmas shopping in Operation Payback
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8190541/WikiLeaks-cyberwar-on-Visa-and-MasterCard-disrupts-Christmas-shopping-in-Operation-Payback.html
A group using the Twitter handle @AnonOperation - which was linked to the WikLeaks site itself - tweeted: "Operation #Payback SITREP: www.visa.com is currently DOWN. FIRE FIRE FIRE!!!!"
The post was retweeted many times, adding to the sense that the attacks were co-ordinated, and WikiLeaks Europe declared it was at "cyberwar" on Twitter.
One tweet mocked MasterCard's advertising slogan with the comment: "There are some things WikiLeaks can't do. For everything else, there's Operation Payback
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http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/mastercard-were-recovering-from-wikileaks-related-attacks/42529
Hackers Attack Those Seen as WikiLeaks Enemies
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/09/world/09wiki.html?_r=2
1,500 supporters had been in online forums and chat rooms organizing the mass “denial of service” attacks. His account was confirmed by Jose Nazario, a senior security researcher at Arbor Networks, a Chelmsford, Mass., firm that tracks malicious activity on computer networks
Inside look at Pentagon's cyberdefense strategy: The battlefield beyond bad flash drives
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/government/inside-look-at-pentagons-cyberdefense-strategy-the-battlefield-beyond-bad-flash-drives/9329?tag=mantle_skin;content
Hackers Give Web Companies a Test of Free Speech
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/09/technology/09net.html?src=busln
MasterCard SecureCode service impacted in attacks over WikiLeaks
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9200541/MasterCard_SecureCode_service_impacted_in_attacks_ over_WikiLeaks?taxonomyId=82
Visa under attack from Anonymous, payment processors, as WikiLeaks war escalates
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/12/visa-under-attack-from-anonymous-payment-processors-as-wikileaks-war-escalates.ars
Hackers launch attacks in support of WikiLeaks
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-12-08-hacker-attacks_N.htm
Late Wednesday, Operation Payback itself appeared to run into problems, as many of its sites went down. It was unclear who was behind the counterattack.
The website for Swedish lawyer Claes Borgstrom, who represents the two women at the center of Assange's sex crimes case, was unreachable Wednesday.
The Swiss postal system's financial arm, Postfinance, which shut down Assange's bank account on Monday, was also having trouble. Spokesman Alex Josty said the website buckled under a barrage of traffic Tuesday.
"Yesterday it was very, very difficult, then things improved overnight," he told the AP. "But it's still not entirely back to normal."
Ironically, the microblogging site Twitter — home of much WikiLeaks support — could become the next target. Operation Payback posted a statement claiming "Twitter you're next for censoring Wikileaks discussion."
Some WikiLeaks supporters accuse Twitter of preventing the term "WikiLeaks" from appearing as one of its popular "trending topics." Twitter denies censorship, saying the topics are determined by an algorithm.
Twitter's top trending topics are not the ones people are discussing the most overall, but those they are talking about more right now than they did previously, Twitter explained in an e-mail Wednesday. If tweets were ranked by volume alone, the weather or other mundane topics would dominate the trends.
Facebook and Twitter Suspend Operation Payback Accounts
http://blogs.forbes.com/mikeisaac/2010/12/08/facebook-and-twitter-suspend-operation-payback-accounts/?boxes=techchannellighttop
http://blogs-images.forbes.com/mikeisaac/files/2010/12/DeBUi-e1291857894272.gif
WikiLeaks followers close Swedish government site: report
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe/WikiLeaks-followers-close-Swedish-government-site-Report/articleshow/7070810.cms
UPDATE 1-Cyber group says WikiLeaks attacks to grow
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE6B80QF20101209
"The campaign is not over from what I've seen, it's still going strong. More people are joining, more and more people are downloading the voluntary botnet tool which allows people to command dos (distributed denial of service) attacks," he added.
Army of hackers targets the Swedish government, Sarah Palin and credit card giants in WikiLeaks 'Operation: Payback'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1336806/Army-hackers-targets-Sarah-Palin-Swedish-government-credit-card-giants-WikiLeaks-Operation-Payback.html#ixzz17brTidg7
# Visa, PayPal, Amazon also come under attack through the night
# Hackers also bring down Swedish government website
# Sarah Palin's personal credit card account targeted
# 5,000 'hacktivists' believed to be behind electronic onslaught
WikiLeaks' payment processor to sue card companies
http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/article941488.ece
WikiLeaks cables: US 'lobbied Russia on behalf of Visa and MasterCard
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/08/wikileaks-us-russia-visa-mastercard
The cable, dated 1 February 2010, states that the Obama administration took up the companies' plightcause with senior Russian government officials. Earlier this year Moscow unveiled plans to create a new National Payment Card System (NPCS) that would collect all credit card fees on domestic transactions – depriving Visa and MasterCard of revenue.
A consortium of state-owned Russian banks would administer the system and collect processing fees "estimated at $4bn (£2.53bn) a year", the cable claims. Additionally, sending payment data abroad would be forbidden under the law going through Russia's rubberstamp lower house of parliament – another potential blow to the US credit card companies.
WikiLeaks cyberwar on Visa and MasterCard disrupts Christmas shopping in Operation Payback
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8190541/WikiLeaks-cyberwar-on-Visa-and-MasterCard-disrupts-Christmas-shopping-in-Operation-Payback.html
A group using the Twitter handle @AnonOperation - which was linked to the WikLeaks site itself - tweeted: "Operation #Payback SITREP: www.visa.com is currently DOWN. FIRE FIRE FIRE!!!!"
The post was retweeted many times, adding to the sense that the attacks were co-ordinated, and WikiLeaks Europe declared it was at "cyberwar" on Twitter.
One tweet mocked MasterCard's advertising slogan with the comment: "There are some things WikiLeaks can't do. For everything else, there's Operation Payback
Post um if ya got um!
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