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MasterCard has made significant progress in restoring full-service to its corporate website. Our core processing capabilities have not been compromised and cardholder account data has not been placed at risk. While we have seen limited interruption in some web-based services, cardholders can continue to use their cards for secure transactions globally.
DOSing mastercard.com isn't 'attacking the public' - it's attacking the face of an international corporate entity that has publicly disowned WikiLeaks, allegedly because they were put under pressure to do so.
Originally posted by Evanzsayz
reply to post by mr-lizard
how do u know its anonymous or even an attack i see nothing
We strongly believe a world class company such as Visa should not get involved by politics and just simply do their business where they are good at. Transferring money. They have no problem transferring money for other businesses such as gambling sites, pornography services and the like so why a donation to a Website which is holding up for human rights should be morally any worse than that is outside of my understanding.
My editing out of 'while I have a chest infection' doesn't change the tone of your post, sorry. It still sounds a bit wrong. If I got the wrong end of the stick tho then I apologise. That aside....
I don't agree that attacking the mastercard site is 'attacking the public.' If the payment infrastructure was being undermined then I'd agree with you, but it's not. People not being able to apply for new credit cards or read mastercard marketting-speak for a few hours isn't a disaster imo.
As for the apparent pressure put on mastercard to drop WikiLeaks... I completely agree with you, that's why I put in 'allegedly' - it does seem a bit convenient that several big corps all dropped WL at the same time tho, don't you think?
Originally posted by Wookiep
The Govt is getting just a TAD bit out of hand on this.
Will reading WikiLeaks cost students jobs with the federal government?
edit on 8-12-2010 by Wookiep because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by EFGuy
reply to post by mr-lizard
No Anonymous is not attacking Interpol as far as I know. I dont know how you came up with that...I have heard absolutely nothing about this. It could be some other group or a different part of Anonymous who are attacking Interpol, if true.
The targets are specific at the moment for the main Anonymous
* PostFinance.ch
* Paypal
In future there may be some attacks on (note: these targets are in pipeline)
* Swedish prosecutor websites
* French Govt. websites
* The Jester ( who claimed to DDOS Wikileaks) - Efforts are being made to trace him but the talks floating around is US official cyber teams were behind the DDOS attacks on Wikileaks..
* Time's website
* & probably twitter
Edit Correction:
OP is correct, Operation Payback is behind it.edit on 8-12-2010 by EFGuy because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by ArMaP
reply to post by InnerTruths
Mastercard's site is working, but they have this on their page.
MasterCard has made significant progress in restoring full-service to its corporate website. Our core processing capabilities have not been compromised and cardholder account data has not been placed at risk. While we have seen limited interruption in some web-based services, cardholders can continue to use their cards for secure transactions globally.
Originally posted by searching4truth
So other than the company having/ to pay for extra bandwidth, what is the point? I have enjoyed some of their previous work, but honestly I only became aware of the group a few months ago.
Also, if the attack doesnt cause any permanent damage is it illegal? Let's say all of ats downloads the program to assist and they reach their target number of computers to disrupt the sites. Would we all be visited by law enforcement?
thanks for the reply.