begins the first cyberwar era of information
thousands of diplomatic cables
The War of the information age, that is, multiple attacks and counterattacks
for
and
against WikiLeaks
through the Internet, has been launched by Army volunteers hackers. On Wednesday, they managed to lock the computer systems of two 'enemies' of the web, Visa and Mastercard, after the two block payments to the site created by Julian Assange.
'Operation Assange avenge' ('Operation Avenge Assange')-organized by Anonymus
following Wikileaks applied to the fence and its creator after filtration
- got a late morning break down some of Mastercard's computer systems,
test the power of spontaneous movement through Internet.
channel in IRC (Internet Relay Chat) from which the attack was directed against MasterCard, the moderator has established the title "Operation Payback. Objective: www.mastercard.com. There are some things you can do WikiLeaks. For what else is Operation Payback. " At noon the channel operators reported that more than 1,800 bots were flooded with distributed denial of service (DDOS) to www.mastercard.com. And the company acknowledged difficulties in some of their services
.'The war has begun'
Meanwhile, other channel users informed of progress of the attack with messages about the status of MasterCard transactions in countries as far away as Sweden
, Sri Lanka or Mexico or the evolution of the shares of the credit card company in the New York Stock Exchange.
"The first information war has begun. Send by Twitter and place it anywhere, "proclaimed one of the hackers. Others requested that the group directed their attacks PayPal, VISA and even the Fox News organization.
Through his Twitter account those responsible for the Anonymous group announced late in the day as the new target to attack was Visa. "Objetivo: www.visa.com. Shoot, shoot, shoot "while providing the data necessary to consummate the attacks. At 22 hours, reached Visa attacking. "Http://isitup.org/www.visa.com IT'S DOWN! Keep Firing! "(" He fell, still shooting "), announced Operation Payback to 22 hours on Twitter . Indeed, when trying to access the Visa page an error message appeared.
Attack PayPal Under Blog company Internet Security Panda, the group had attacked shortly after PayPal payment system Internet announcing the cancellation
WikiLeaks service to 
though the attack was limited to a company blog. 
After the attack, Paypal Wikileaks has given money donations that he had retained. According to Paypal, their decision was based solely on professional ethics covered under their code of conduct.
For Paypal Wikileaks leaks, being secret documents related to U.S. State Department, understood to have obtained illegally, it is not consistent with company policy. For Paypal Wikileaks has violated U.S. laws and that is what has led him temporarily retain the funds, as explained above. 'Anonymous' has also managed to seriously affect the operation of PostFinance, the Swiss bank has also blocked the
to WikiLeaks, and the Swedish law firm representing the two women who have accused Assange of ; "So we will use our resources to increase awareness and support attacking those against those who are helping to lead our world to freedom and democracy," concluded the message.
Actions of 'Anonymous'
Actions of 'Anonymous'
This is not the first attack by 'Anonymous'. It is considered that the group has facilitated the identification and arrest of several predators, but perhaps one of his most famous was the so-called 'Project Chanology' initiated in 2008 to protest against the Church of Scientology. Following the protest, including denial of service attacks (DDOS) and those who are suffering now Mastercard, the group adopted the aesthetics of comics 'V for Vendetta', in which thousands of citizens use identical mask to avoid identification by the authorities. Last year, 'Anonymous' also joined the protests against the Iranian elections. This group is the same as
blocked pages SGAE and the Ministry of Culture last October. In their protests, 'Anonymous' has described his attack as 'Operation Payback' (Operation Vengeance) but since we started publishing WikiLeaks cables American diplomacy and the website began to suffer harassment and
business governments, 'Anonymous' decided launch "Operation Come Assange."
"WikiLeaks is off by distributed denial of service (DDOS). There is reason to believe that the U.S. is behind because of the nature of the leak on Sunday 28 November, "the group said on its website. Seen
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