Technewsworld says, not to worry. It's just a front page of Mastercard, not the guts of the operation, or an inconventient slow down for shoppers. Yeah? What about if the dirty laundry of various technology news sites were spread around the internet, or information about their investors, or their bank accounts? Would it seem more serious then?
"Cyberattacks this week by supporters of Wikileaks on the home sites of Visa (NYSE: V) and MasterCard (NYSE: MA) may have been designed to grab headlines rather than actually disrupt the companies' financial operations.
The wave of electronic assaults, referred to as "Operation Payback" by the activists mounting the attacks, were aimed at the home sites of the credit card companies. Those sites have high profiles but relatively low traffic levels -- traffic levels that make them more vulnerable to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Such attacks deliberately spike the traffic to a site and make it inaccessible.
"These are their public-facing websites," Nicholas Percoco, a senior vice president with Chicago-based security firm Trustwave, told TechNewsWorld. "They're not taking down transaction processing. They're taking down brochureware websites."
"It's more of a pie-in-the-face tactic," he added."
We know Assange is a Communist and has Soros money behind him. So who exactly are these supporter/hackers?
Technology News: Cybersecurity: Pro-Wikileaks Attacks More Slap in the Face than Kick in the Head
Friday, December 10, 2010
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I've never been to the website for Visa or Mastercard, and my cards have always worked fine.
It must infuriate those twelve year olds that their DOS attacks show their true impotence.
There having more luck clogging conservative websites. Several I've visited in the last 2 days fail, refresh, fail, then die. I doubt that they have the firewalls and protection of a MasterCard or PayPal.
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