MasterCard Hit By WikiLeaks Payback Attacks 715
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."
Re:Stupid action (Score:1, Funny)
Such stupid actions will only serve to discredit Wikileaks further. The best and only response should be: take your own money elsewhere.
CU, Martin
Not bad, as long as Visa doesn't do the same thing. (Don't try to pretend that Discover and Amex are -real- credit cards).
Forgive me if I'm off topic here... (Score:5, Funny)
I keep trying to read the story at http://www.mastercard.com/ [mastercard.com] but nothings happening.
High fees? ...Millions of dollars (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Stupid action (Score:5, Funny)
I don't think they count as zombies when the botnet is voluntary. This is more like a coordinated attack by ninjas and pirates.
Re:Poor Mastercard (Score:3, Funny)