Block Wikileaks, Paypal Hacker Attacked

PayPal's decision to ban Wikileaks using online services to collect donations should be paid handsomely. Web site that provides online financial transaction services are under attack DDos (distributed denial of service) from hacker groups sympathetic to Wikileaks.

So far, PayPal's main service is not interrupted. The attack, which lasted for eight hours on Monday (6/12/2010) yesterday attacked the blog Paypalblog.com causing 75 percent access to the site disturbed.

Panda Security, a provider of Internet security solutions, reported that someone indeed launched a revenge operation against PayPal with a code of "Operation Avenge Assange". Posters are asking Internet users to attack a boycott of PayPal and was spread on the internet. It is unclear who is setting up this campaign of revenge and called himself "anonymous".


PayPal's decision to ban Wikileaks using online services to collect donations should be paid handsomely. Web site that provides online financial transaction services are under attack DDos (distributed denial of service) from hacker groups sympathetic to Wikileaks.

So far, PayPal's main service is not interrupted. The attack, which lasted for eight hours on Monday (6/12/2010) yesterday attacked the blog Paypalblog.com causing 75 percent access to the site disturbed.

Panda Security, a provider of Internet security solutions, reported that someone indeed launched a revenge operation against PayPal with a code of "Operation Avenge Assange". Posters are asking Internet users to attack a boycott of PayPal and was spread on the internet. It is unclear who is setting up this campaign of revenge and called himself "anonymous".

Besides calling for the PayPal attack, the perpetrators of the poster also invited everyone to reproduce information on Wikileaks both with mirrors, CD, and even printed. He was also invited to disseminate information from Wikileaks via Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, and other social networking and state officials seeking comment about the information from Wikileaks and record comments. In fact, the poster who cited comments U.S. poet John Terry Barlow on opening a massive demonstration calling for freedom of disseminating information.

"The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the Troops," said John Perry Barlowdi Twitter quoted in the poster. The point of serious information warfare has just happened with Wikileaks as an arena and you all are soldiers. (kompas)
taken from ketok.com