WikiLeaks cyberattacks now involve Visa, Facebook, Twitter, MasterCard - Polidicks

[quote]Visa website taken down, MasterCard website barely up, Operation Payback's Facebook and Twitter pages down. Who will be the next casualty in the WikiLeaks cyberwars?[/quote] [quote]The cyberattacks against corporations that move against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appear to be escalating. MasterCard website goes down. Payback from WikiLeaks supporters? Why did PayPal ditch WikiLeaks? The State Department asked it to. Cyberattacks persist as MasterCard slogs through WikiLeaks protest WikiLeaks ditched by MasterCard, Visa. Who's next? After bringing down his Swiss bank's website last week, and MasterCard's site Wednesday, a loose coalition of hackers calling themselves Operation Payback brought down Visa's website Wednesday afternoon. Companies are fighting back. In the latest salvo, Facebook and Twitter both pulled Operation Payback's websites Wednesday afternoon, cutting key lines of communication with the "troops" in this cyber-battle. What damage remains is hard to assess, as MasterCard and Visa continue to try to re-establish full functioning of their websites. If nothing else, Operation Payback has drawn attention to the vulnerability of many companies to this sort of cyberattack. As President Obama said in May 2009, "This cyber threat is one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face as a nation.... This status quo is no longer acceptable – not when there's so much at stake. We can and we must do better." For the attackers, the real benefit may be attracting attention to their cause. Where did these so-called cyberwars begin? Last week, WikiLeaks announced the planned release of thousands of classified government cables. Its website was quickly knocked out, presumably by those who didn't want the material released, but WikiLeaks shored up its digital defenses and proceeded. Governments, media, and others reacted with shock to the leaked cables, and responded by accusing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of assorted crimes, closing his accounts, and calling for his extradition. Private companies got involved as well: Amazon.com stopped hosting WikiLeaks, PayPal stopped allowing money transfers to him at the urging of the State Department, and this week MasterCard and Visa followed suit. Angry supporters of WikiLeaks saw these moves as attempted censorship, and announced that they would "fight for freedom." A group of hackers collectively called "Anonymous," photographed only in Guy Fawkes masks, stepped into the fray. "Mastercard, Visa, Paypal, Amazon all betray America by betraying Free Speech," wrote "Guy Fawkes" on the Operation Payback Facebook page, early Wednesday morning. "You will all be dealt with. Anonymous is on your case. WikiLeaks cannot be silenced!" Anonymous responded to Assange's real-world challenges with cybersphere assaults against the various organizations. Anonymous's offensive division, known as Operation Payback, controlled a digital "cannon" that could blast websites of their choosing through distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Operation Payback had previously targeted groups that tried to prevent the illegal download of movies, music, and games, as well as the Church of Scientology (no relation to The First Church of Christ, Scientist, that publishes The Christian Science Monitor) and KISS performer Gene Simmons.[/quote] [url="http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/new-economy/2010/1208/WikiLeaks-cyberattacks-now-involve-Visa-Facebook-Twitter-MasterCard"]Source[/url]

Fuck you anon.

Don't forget Paypal

God these fucking 4chan people are so sad. They're like the retarded kid who tries to jump in on your conversation when they have no fucking idea what's going on, and you want them to leave but they never get the hint EVER. Anybody who condones this shit should be locked up. These cunts are the people who are taking away our net neutrality with their 10 year old internet superhero bullshit.

What they don't realize is that they are doing much more harm to their cause than good.

God fucking damn it, this is getting way out of hand. These fucking children need to cease this petty nonsense. No amount of sites taken down will change a fucking thing. This will only end up with net neutrality being thrown out the window, into the abyss. If you want to change something, take up arms, and form a coherent force that doesn't hide under the guise of internet anonymity.

Is there really any point to doing this anyways?

Stupid faggots. I am really angry for them doing this stupid crap.

Its really just stopping all the internet marketing and doing worse than the good.

Normally when shit like this happens everybody is like YEAHHHHHHH with a few people here and there bitching, but now this is becoming absurd. Fuck you anon, you're making my life hard.

[QUOTE=CheeseMan;26579008]God these fucking 4chan people are so sad. They're like the retarded kid who tries to jump in on your conversation when they have no fucking idea what's going on, and you want them to leave but they never get the hint EVER. Anybody who condones this shit should be locked up. These cunts are the people who are taking away our net neutrality with their 10 year old internet superhero bullshit.[/QUOTE] You obviously have never had the fun of throwing shit in to fans.

[QUOTE=Domokun;26578991]Fuck you anon.[/QUOTE] More like fuck you haters of wikileaks.

...and the media still treats them as a secret group of "super hackers"

[QUOTE=Doctor_Communism;26579064]You obviously have never had the fun of throwing shit in to fans.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Ratboy14;26579082]More like fuck you haters of wikileaks.[/QUOTE] [url=www.4chan.org/b/]Go here, never post again[/url]

Alright, fuck you Anon, or should I say Anal! I'm sick and tired of this! Let me live my fucking life! Someone needs to counter attack.

[QUOTE=Doctor_Communism;26579064]You obviously have never had the fun of throwing shit in to fans.[/QUOTE] You obviously have never had the fun of not being able to receive your monthly payments so you end up not being able to pay bills and going into debt all because a bunch of fucking no life 15 year olds want to be part of some bullshit cause which even Julian himself doesn't want happening.

[QUOTE=Ratboy14;26579082]More like fuck you haters of wikileaks.[/QUOTE] I don't hate wikileaks, but I hate wikileaks followers. Doing retarded stuff like ddosing random websites does not help the cause.

[QUOTE=JWJ;26579062]Normally when shit like this happens everybody is like YEAHHHHHHH with a few people here and there bitching, but now this is becoming absurd. Fuck you anon, you're making my life hard.[/QUOTE] Hopefully this will be over before your business takes a huge hit. I was just about to purchase a server with you guys.

[QUOTE=Zally13;26579116]Hopefully this will be over before your business takes a huge hit. I was just about to purchase a server with you guys.[/QUOTE] [b][highlight]FUCK[/highlight][/b]. :argh:

[QUOTE=CheeseMan;26579089][url=www.4chan.org/b/]Go here, never post again[/url][/QUOTE] 4chan and Facepunch are pretty much the same thing other than the fact we're smaller. Also I'm going to keep posting. Also this is going to escalate very quickly.

[QUOTE=Falineir;26579095]Alright, fuck you Anon, or should I say Anal! I'm sick and tired of this! Let me live my fucking life! Someone needs to counter attack.[/QUOTE] It's hard to counter attack a bunch of sweaty basement dwellers that hide behind proxies.

shit is just getting more fucking real by each minute that passes.

[QUOTE=JWJ;26579123][b][highlight]FUCK[/highlight][/b]. :argh:[/QUOTE] Don't worry, I'll still purchase from you guys once this shit's over with.

[QUOTE=JWJ;26579106]You obviously have never had the fun of not being able to receive your monthly payments so you end up not being able to pay bills and going into debt all because a bunch of fucking no life 15 year olds want to be part of some bullshit cause which even Julian himself doesn't want happening.[/QUOTE] So Anonymous is a bunch of internet superheros when they take a shit on Scientology but not when they inconvenience you?

[QUOTE=Doctor_Communism;26579129]4chan and Facepunch are pretty much the same thing other than the fact we're smaller. Also I'm going to keep posting. Also this is going to escalate very quickly.[/QUOTE] Are you serious? 4chan has nothing alike Facepunch, you're just trying to justify this stupid crap. [QUOTE=Doctor_Communism;26579153]So Anonymous is a bunch of internet superheros when they take a shit on Scientology but not when they inconvenience you?[/QUOTE] Oh my god this level of ignorance is warrant for taking you in for medical research

[QUOTE=Doctor_Communism;26579153]So Anonymous is a bunch of internet superheros when they take a shit on Scientology but not when they inconvenience you?[/QUOTE] Jesus christ, how fucking ignorant are you? Scientology had a REASON for being attacked, but by them doing this the COMMON PERSON and businesses which have [b]fuck all[/b] to do with WikiLeaks are now getting reamed.

[QUOTE=Intoxicated Spy;26579002]Don't forget Paypal[/QUOTE] But then I can't get my games. :saddowns:

[QUOTE=Doctor_Communism;26579153]So Anonymous is a bunch of internet superheros when they take a shit on Scientology but not when they inconvenience you?[/QUOTE] Scientology being down doesn't damage anyone. The most popular money processing service on earth does.

[QUOTE=CheeseMan;26579161]Are you serious? 4chan has nothing alike Facepunch, you're just trying to justify this stupid crap. Oh my god this level of ignorance is warrant for taking you in for medical research[/QUOTE] I'm not trying to justify anything. I just don't care because I don't have anything invested in this whole thing.

[QUOTE=Doctor_Communism;26579153]So Anonymous is a bunch of internet superheros when they take a shit on Scientology but not when they inconvenience you?[/QUOTE] Wikileaks doesn't want shit like this happening, that's the thing. Only makes them look worse. Imagine a child acts like a little shit. Who gets the blame? The parent and the child, even though the parent wants the child to act good.