Dutch authorities said today that they create got arrested a 16-year-old hacker involved inwards the pro-WikiLeaks attacks on the Web sites of MasterCard too PayPal.
The Dutch National Prosecutors Office said that the teen, who was non named, was arrested past times a high-tech criminal offence squad terminal night.
The arrest comes afterwards a grouping known equally Anonymous--a label that's been adopted earlier past times activists who create got electronically assaulted the Church of Scientology too the Australian government--organized attacks on Web sites of companies that create got distanced themselves from WikiLeaks. Distributed denial-of-service attacks enlist thousands of computers, all making simultaneous connections, inwards hopes of overwhelming a target.
Visa.com was taken offline briefly yesterday afternoon, though the fellowship told CNET that no payments or transactions were affected. MasterCard.com was unreachable yesterday morning. H5N1 Web site for the Swedish prosecution agency, which is trying to extradite WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange on sexual assail allegations, has been targeted too.
Amazon.com was attacked today, precisely different Anonymous' other victims, it has a massive server infrastructure that tin convey additional capacity online instantly. That famously robust arrangement proved able to fend off what's beingness called Operation Payback.
"We create got changed our target--the Hive isn't big plenty to onrush Amazon," AnonOpsNet announced through Twitter. The novel target: PayPal's Web-based arrangement for processing payments.
It's unclear reports that PayPal was experiencing meaning problems inwards Japan, South Africa, too Germany, precisely non inwards the USA or most of Western Europe. The api.paypal.com Web site, however, was inaccessible from CNET's newsroom this afternoon.
Also today:
• Attorney General Eric Holder says the Feds are investigating the pro-WikiLeaks attacks. "We are aware of the incidents," Holder said inwards Washington today, Bloomberg reports. "We are looking into them." No discussion on whether the U.S. Department of Justice is looking into the attacks on WikiLeaks itself.
• An reports that PayPal was experiencing meaning problems inwards Japan, South Africa, too Germany, precisely non inwards the USA or most of Western Europe. The api.paypal.com Web site, however, was inaccessible from CNET's newsroom this afternoon.
Also today:
• Attorney General Eric Holder solid collection of essays addressing these questions: "When does my correct to privacy trump your need for security? Should a democratic authorities hold upwards allowed to do surreptitious diplomacy? Would nosotros rather alive inwards a Blue Planet alongside guaranteed privacy or a Blue Planet inwards which in that place are no secrets? If the respond is somewhere inwards between, how produce nosotros describe the line?"
• One argue why Anonymous' onrush on Amazon.com didn't fare too thence well: The online retailer's "European datacenter, which formerly hosted the WikiLeaks Web site, accounts for to a greater extent than than a tertiary of all Internet-facing Web servers inwards Ireland." That's from reports that PayPal was experiencing meaning problems inwards Japan, South Africa, too Germany, precisely non inwards the USA or most of Western Europe. The api.paypal.com Web site, however, was inaccessible from CNET's newsroom this afternoon.
Also today:
• Attorney General Eric Holder Netcraft.
• The American Conservative magazine published an article making the conservative example for WikiLeaks. Excerpt: "Conservatives should prefer an explosion of whistle-blower groups similar WikiLeaks to a federal authorities powerful plenty to accept them down."
• Amazon.co.uk previously sold (for virtually vii British pounds) a Kindle volume titled "WikiLeaks documents bring out U.S. of A. unusual policy conspiracies." The Web page is at nowadays offline, precisely here's Google's cached version.
The Dutch National Prosecutors Office said that the teen, who was non named, was arrested past times a high-tech criminal offence squad terminal night.
The arrest comes afterwards a grouping known equally Anonymous--a label that's been adopted earlier past times activists who create got electronically assaulted the Church of Scientology too the Australian government--organized attacks on Web sites of companies that create got distanced themselves from WikiLeaks. Distributed denial-of-service attacks enlist thousands of computers, all making simultaneous connections, inwards hopes of overwhelming a target.
Visa.com was taken offline briefly yesterday afternoon, though the fellowship told CNET that no payments or transactions were affected. MasterCard.com was unreachable yesterday morning. H5N1 Web site for the Swedish prosecution agency, which is trying to extradite WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange on sexual assail allegations, has been targeted too.
Amazon.com was attacked today, precisely different Anonymous' other victims, it has a massive server infrastructure that tin convey additional capacity online instantly. That famously robust arrangement proved able to fend off what's beingness called Operation Payback.
"We create got changed our target--the Hive isn't big plenty to onrush Amazon," AnonOpsNet announced through Twitter. The novel target: PayPal's Web-based arrangement for processing payments.
It's unclear reports that PayPal was experiencing meaning problems inwards Japan, South Africa, too Germany, precisely non inwards the USA or most of Western Europe. The api.paypal.com Web site, however, was inaccessible from CNET's newsroom this afternoon.
Also today:
• Attorney General Eric Holder says the Feds are investigating the pro-WikiLeaks attacks. "We are aware of the incidents," Holder said inwards Washington today, Bloomberg reports. "We are looking into them." No discussion on whether the U.S. Department of Justice is looking into the attacks on WikiLeaks itself.
• An reports that PayPal was experiencing meaning problems inwards Japan, South Africa, too Germany, precisely non inwards the USA or most of Western Europe. The api.paypal.com Web site, however, was inaccessible from CNET's newsroom this afternoon.
Also today:
• Attorney General Eric Holder solid collection of essays addressing these questions: "When does my correct to privacy trump your need for security? Should a democratic authorities hold upwards allowed to do surreptitious diplomacy? Would nosotros rather alive inwards a Blue Planet alongside guaranteed privacy or a Blue Planet inwards which in that place are no secrets? If the respond is somewhere inwards between, how produce nosotros describe the line?"
• One argue why Anonymous' onrush on Amazon.com didn't fare too thence well: The online retailer's "European datacenter, which formerly hosted the WikiLeaks Web site, accounts for to a greater extent than than a tertiary of all Internet-facing Web servers inwards Ireland." That's from reports that PayPal was experiencing meaning problems inwards Japan, South Africa, too Germany, precisely non inwards the USA or most of Western Europe. The api.paypal.com Web site, however, was inaccessible from CNET's newsroom this afternoon.
Also today:
• Attorney General Eric Holder Netcraft.
• The American Conservative magazine published an article making the conservative example for WikiLeaks. Excerpt: "Conservatives should prefer an explosion of whistle-blower groups similar WikiLeaks to a federal authorities powerful plenty to accept them down."
• Amazon.co.uk previously sold (for virtually vii British pounds) a Kindle volume titled "WikiLeaks documents bring out U.S. of A. unusual policy conspiracies." The Web page is at nowadays offline, precisely here's Google's cached version.
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