Mastercard Again Taken Down By Hacktivists In Wikileaks Vengeance

This is not a repeat from December, 2010. Credit card giant Mastercard has again been downed by hacktivists for their "fiscal embargo" and "unlawful banking blockade against Wikileaks," six months after the financial giants got together to shut ... continue

Anonymous declares war on the U.K.

Following the arrest of five people in Britain for their alleged involvement in the much talked about DDoS attacks in December 2010 against a number of websites for their involvement in cutting the cash flow to WikiLeaks. ... continue

Latest Anonymous attack shows a huge potential weakness in the Web – APIs

Anyone who has been following the whole Wikileaks story will know the organization is facing an incredible adversary who has no compunction in using whatever means possible to shut Wikileaks down. That doesn't mean that Wikileaks isn't without ... continue

PayPal downed by ‘hackers’ for Wikileaks censure

In addition to Visa and Mastercard, online payment processing giant PayPal has been knocked offline tonight by a loosely affiliated group of web users protesting the financial restraints placed on the Wikileaks operation. As of now, Visa is ... continue

‘Operation Payback’ continues, Visa site offline

The "group of hackers" responsible for taking Mastercard's main site offline for hours today (a basic version of the site appears to be back up for now) has successfully disrupted service on Visa's website as well after ... continue

Anons knock down Mastercard in Wikileaks feud

Although topics related to Wikileaks and Julian Assange have been mysteriously not trending on Twitter the last few days (prompting many Twitter users to grumble about censorship), early this morning "Mastercard" briefly was a trending topic on ... continue

Twitter bounces back from new wave of DDoS attacks

Twitter was hit again today with outages, but the microblogging service was better equipped to deal with the attacks today after last week's very public meltdown. The service was affected around 3pm EST (12pm Pacific) for around 20 ... continue

Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal- downed yesterday to silence one dude?

You may know him as Cyxymu, and apparently some of his views are a smidgen unpopular. Facebook outages were not, as I speculated yesterday, the effects of Twitter overflow. In addition to Twitter and Facebook, LiveJournal, Blogger and YouTube were also ... continue