Thursday, December 9, 2010

MasterCard Hit By WikiLeaks Payback Attacks

An anonymous reader writes "MasterCard's website has been hit by a distributed denial of service attack. Netcraft describes how the attack uses a voluntary botnet of LOIC (low orbit ion cannon) users to swamp sites with traffic. PostFinance, the PayPal blog and Swedish prosecutors have been targeted previously."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.




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