[LINK] Cyber-war erupts over WikiLeaks

[Kim Holburn]

An odd headline, given that wikileaks itself has been under a sustained cyber-war attack for some time now.  Is it that if the attack comes from or is in tune with the US government it's not cyber war?

Pretty scrappy article too.  This is journalism today?  Maybe it was written by a ... huhhmmm ... young person.

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1437231/Visa-cyber-attacked-to-avenge-WikiLeaks

> A 'cyber-war' has erupted, with Twitter suspending the account of a group that urged hacker attacks on Visa to 'avenge' WikiLeaks.

> Members of "Anonymous," in an online chat with AFP on Wednesday, vowed to extend their cyber campaign to anyone with an "anti-WikiLeaks agenda."
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> The group has already taken credit for temporarily taking down the websites of Mastercard, PayPal, the Swiss Post Office bank and others with distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
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> In a typical DDoS attack, a large number of computers are commanded to simultaneously visit a website, overwhelming its servers, slowing service or knocking it offline completely.


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