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Florida Shooter Clay Duke's Red 'V': A Refresher on the Ominous Symbol

(Dec. 15) -- Before Clay A. Duke opened fire on a school board meeting in Panama City, Fla., he left behind what to some was probably a cryptic symbol: a red, spray-painted "V" crossing a crude circle. For others, however, the meaning behind that symbol was obvious. It comes from Alan Moore's dystopian graphic novel "V...

Air Force Joins the War on WikiLeaks and The New York Times

(Dec. 14) -- It's held off on using bombers for now, but the Air Force has stepped up its opposition to international media organization WikiLeaks. It has reportedly blocked access to WikiLeaks and media websites such as The New York Times, The Guardian and Der Spiegel that originally published WikiLeaks documents....

WikiLeaks: Who Is 'Anonymous' and What Is 'Operation Payback'?

(Dec. 10) -- The renegade reputation of the global cyberwarriors who attacked major websites in the U.S. and abroad this week took a slight hit when one of them was busted: a 16-year-old Dutch boy who was in bed asleep when police came to arrest him. When the boy is arraigned Friday in Rotterdam, he will briefly become...

Pro-WikiLeaks 'Hacktivists' Attack MasterCard; Is Sarah Palin Next?

(Dec. 8) -- Julian Assange may be held up at the moment, but his supporters are waging war. An organization of online "hacktivists" linked to the 4Chan network "partially paralyzed" MasterCard.com on Wednesday after the credit card company stopped processing donations to WikiLeaks. The group, known as Anonymous,...

Hackers Hit MasterCard in WikiLeaks Funding Revenge

(Dec. 8) -- WikiLeaks has been slowly choked of funds in recent days as political pressure forced firms including MasterCard and PayPal to withdraw their financial services from the controversial organization. Now a self-styled band of "hacktivists" is taking revenge on those banking giants by attacking, and sometimes...

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MasterCard Incorporated () or MasterCard Worldwide is an American multinational financial services corporation with its headquarters in the MasterCard International Global Headquarters, Purchase, New York, United States.

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