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MasterCard.com website down in apparent Wikileaks-motivated internet attack

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Jun
2011

MasterCard’s website is currently inaccessible following what appears to be a WikiLeaks-inspired internet attack against it. In what appears to be the latest salvo by hactivists, the mastercard.com website is thought to be suffering from a denial-of-service attack – where an internet site is bombarded with a large amount of traffic making it impossible for […]

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SOCA website scalp claimed by LulzSec in apparent DDoS attack

21
Jun
2011

SOCA, the UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency, appears to have become the latest casualty of the LulzSec hacking group as its website was sporadically inaccessible today.In an echo of the announcement LulzSec made about its attack on the CIA’s website, a message on Twitter announced the news of the denial-of-service attack in simple terms: Tango […]

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