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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,...

WikiLeaks Website Under Hacker Attack

(Nov. 30) -- The WikiLeaks whistle-blower website is under a powerful attack by computer hackers. Again. Today, the site was bumped out of service to U.S. and European users by a "distributed denial of service attack," or DDOS, a common method used by hackers to slow down or bring down sites, The Associated Press...

Background on distributed denial of service attack

In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) or distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) is an attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users.

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