The continuing pressures experienced by WikiLeaks and its founder, triggering reprisal carried out by the hacktivist (activist hackers).WikiLeaks hacker group supporting founder Julian Assange conducted a series of cyber attacks against several parties who are considered hostile stand.
Web sites that are considered hostile to WikiLeaks, such as PayPal, Swiss Banks PostFinance (postfinance.ch), the official site in the Swedish public prosecutor Assange (aklagare.se), and Senator Lieberman site (lieberman.senate.gov) who vocally opposed Assange , they managed to disable it through the initiative which they named: Operation Payback.
"The goal of Operation Payback not just hacking for profit. In this case, the goal of hackers is to disable the service and protest. What we see here is a very focused attack, to bring down the servers due to assume there is injustice," said Noa Bar Yossef, senior security experts from computer security firm Imperva, told PCWorld.
Security experts from PandaBlogs Sean-Paul CORREL, revealed the attack Operation Payback, PayPalBlog.com site was down for 8 hours 15 minutes. Attacks using the method Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS / DoS).
Unlike DoS attacks typically target sites are usually bombarded with thousands or even hundreds of thousands of spam from computers PCs that have been infected with malware, according to Bar Yossef, Operation Payback recruiting people from within their network to download a specific program code that is DoS malware itself.
Thus, there is no machine that became the victim (or known as a botnet) because the owner was involved consciously make their computer as a botnet and the tools to silence the hostile parties WikiLeaks.
As is known, previously WikiLeaks PayPal freeze accounts for 60 thousand Euros because it considers confidential pembocor this site has violated the terms of use policy.
The same step, then conducted by the Swiss Post Finance Bank (Switzerland post office financial services), which freeze accounts and assets amounting to 31 thousand Euros WikiLeaks. As a result of freezing the action, at least Assange and WikiLeaks lost about 100 thousand Euro donation from the people who sympathize.
Mastercard and VISA also has closed the distribution of donations to WikiLeaks. In fact, at the same time, according to the Guardian website technology editor Charles Arthur both Mastercard and VISA, absolutely not freeze donation service to racist movements like the Ku Klux Klan.
"Drama WikiLeaks will certainly be a kind of cyber war. And this kind of virtual war could be won. The Internet is so dynamic. It was impossible to close an organization like WikiLeaks who have support so popular. Hosting and funding options virtually can not be stopped," says founder Antiwar.com Eric Garris.
The same step, then conducted by the Swiss Post Finance Bank (Switzerland post office financial services), which freeze accounts and assets amounting to 31 thousand Euros WikiLeaks. As a result of freezing the action, at least Assange and WikiLeaks lost about 100 thousand Euro donation from the people who sympathize.
Mastercard and VISA also has closed the distribution of donations to WikiLeaks. In fact, at the same time, according to the Guardian website technology editor Charles Arthur both Mastercard and VISA, absolutely not freeze donation service to racist movements like the Ku Klux Klan.
"Drama WikiLeaks will certainly be a kind of cyber war. And this kind of virtual war could be won. The Internet is so dynamic. It was impossible to close an organization like WikiLeaks who have support so popular. Hosting and funding options virtually can not be stopped," says founder Antiwar.com Eric Garris.
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