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PayPal suffers DoS for spurning Wikileaks

Anonymous is jumping into the WIkileaks fray. First target, Paypal. http://is.gd/igUk7 "We do not forgive; we do not forget. Expect Us."



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There's also thousands upon thousands of people whom are closing acccounts at ebaY, PayPal, and Amazon. Over 3000 comments to that effect on one news site article alone

This looks like it may get entertaining.

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Boycott PayPal for Dumping Wikileaks


Boycott Amazon for Dumping Wikileaks



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What a cluster!
Be sure to read the last 'Bootnotes' part too.

Financial vice tightens on Wikileaks, hacktivistas retaliate


Assange Swiss bank, Mastercard sucked into imbroglio


The financial squeeze has been put onto Wikileaks, with MasterCard refusing to process donations to the whistleblower site and the suspension of the personal bank account of founder Julian Assange in Switzerland.

The withdrawal of payment facilities by MasterCard follows a similar decision by PayPal. Would-be supporters are only currently able to donate funds via Visa to a website hosted in Iceland.

Also, the Swiss post office's bank PostFinance has frozen a bank account run by Assange. The account held 31,000 euros of funds made up of a mixture of Assange's personal assets and donations to a legal defence fund, the BBC reports.

PostFinance said the account was suspended because Assange provided false residency details when he opened the account.

The move put the Swiss bank in the firing line of hacktivists from the loosely-banded Anonymous collective, who have launched a denial of service attack against postfinance.ch as part of a wider pro-Wikileaks and anti-censorship campaign that launched with an attack on a PayPal blog over the weekend.

Both attacks were prompted by the respective organisations' decisions to freeze accounts used by Wikileaks or Assange.

Wikileaks' decision to start publishing leaked US diplomatic cables late last month has created far more heat than its previous decisions to publish logs from the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iran. It's tempting to speculate that US authorities are applying pressure on various banks and financial service firms in order to choke off sources of funding to the site.

Julian Assange was arrested by UK police on Tuesday, and is due to be questioned over allegations of rape made by Swedish authorities that he strongly denies. Assange, the subject of a European arrest warrant, surrendered himself into custody after making an appointment to turn himself into police at a London police station. ®

Bootnotes

1) Be careful of fake Wikileaks sites and supposed torrents of diplomatic cables - cybercrooks have inevitably begun using interest in the affair to distribute malware to the unwary, security watchers warn.

2) While the finances of Wikileaks are politically important, the far more significant economic problem of the stability of banks has begun to exercise inspirational footballer and sometime philosopher Eric Cantona.

Red Eric has called on his fellow French citizens to withdraw funds from their bank accounts on Tuesday in protest at the banking system. Government ministers and banks had unsurprisingly condemned the move. Finance minister Christine Lagarde has dismissed the protest as "grotesque" and "not serious", The Guardian reports.



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Some background on Anonymous from an academic POV.
Six videos, +/- 10 mins each, total length: 1 hour, 4 minutes.
Embed code at link below.
edit: Hmmm. guess this forum or YT has changed something, as playlist apparently no longer embeddable here... Watch it here or at YT


[video=http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=7EA01970F0AF0CFB]



Hackers vs. Scientology

Gabriella Coleman's lecture "Old and New Net Wars over Free Speech & Secrecy or How to Understand the Lulz battle against the Church of Scientology", at NYU's ITP on March 5, 2010.

A video presentation about the question why geeks have been compelled to protest the Church of Scientology vehemently for nearly two decades.

Videographer: Stephen Bruckett Editor: Patrick Davison.

This work is published by Gabriella Coleman under a free Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike license. Full text of permission can be found here: http://nocensor****.co.cc/index.php?id=137

-- Edited by budnonymous on Tuesday 7th of December 2010 05:21:02 PM

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Looks like our buddy, Paypal Osama, (not to be confused with that other paypal Osama) got caught telling a little white lie...

In a TechCrunch post, he stated that State Dept told us these were illegal activities. It was straightforward." when questioned about exactly why, or what were the illegal activities. However, later in the post, he clarifies (backstage, after the interview was over no less), that the State Department did not directly talk to PayPal and that the letter in question here was actually sent by the State Department to WikiLeaks.

In other events overnight, Anonymous took down mastercard.com, and Senator Lieberman's site, also glanced upon Sarah Palin's site. One other DdoSed site, ADVBYRA.SE - the the site of the 'rape' accusers' lawyer, was taken down by the ISP due to being on a shared server

A good spot to get the play by play with excellent visual exibits is this post at Panda Labs blog.


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Wow! This situation has turned into the biggest single BS-clusterbleep I can ever recall, even though it seems to have slowed down a tad for the moment.  No keeping up with everything.

I did find this mastercard ad playing before (and also beside,  although not recorded) a report the other day on an Austrailan site.





Of course I couldn't resist to make this one either, just for the LOLz!

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There are links to other news reports etc in the video descriptions...


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Now here are a couple surprises. (not)

Bank of America cuts ties with WikiLeaks

This bank's stuff is due to be released very soon.
I think that's what a lot of folks are waiting for.



The LOIC  (Low Orbit Ion Cannon or LOL-cannon) is starting to be defined as malware/spyware

From Virustotal.com

File name:
loic-1.0.4-binary.zip
Submission date:
2010-12-17 06:50:31 (UTC)
Current status:
finished
Result:
18 /43 (41.9%)



-- Edited by budnonymous on Saturday 18th of December 2010 06:33:21 AM

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What Twitter reveals about the WikiLeaks saga

By Kate Pritchard

Hacktivist group Anonymous has routinely attacked those who had targeted WikiLeaks. But one company's brand has been hit the hardest.

WikiLeaks negative sentiment

Anonymous leapt to the support of WikiLeaks after various companies terminated business links with the site. The 1,000-strong group of activists launched what they called Operation Payback, vowing to give perceived anti-WikiLeaks firms a "black eye".

And Amazon's reputation, it seems, has taken a particularly bad hammering as a result.

Social-media analytics firm Alterian has researched the online conversations around the companies involved in the Anonymous hacking (WikiLeaks, PayPal, Amazon, Visa and MasterCard). It found that:

  • There have been more than 200,000 social-media mentions of the companies involved in the incident.
  • Amazon has had the greatest share of voice with 90,000 mentions, followed by PayPal with 75,000.
  • Amazon also received the most negative comments with 30.25 per cent, again followed by 26.31 per cent for PayPal.

The company's going to have to do some major damage-control to repair its reputation (that means no late deliveries over Christmas, then).

Alterian's social monitoring tools are impressive. Over the eight weeks before the X Factor final, the company looked at the volume of online chatter about the contestants, as well as the sentiment of the conversations. The day before the final X Factor show, the company emailed us predicting that Matt Cardle would win. Nice work.



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Thursday, December 16,2010

Feds react to WikiLeaks

By David Accomazzo

The controversy surrounding the latest disclosure of secret and classified diplomatic cables, dubbed "cablegate" by some uninventive types in the media, has spawned a wide variety of responses.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, herself an author of some of the most controversial (and embarrassing) cables, stands on one side, bellowing that the document disclosure "tears at the fabric" of international relations. Then there are others, like Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who downplay the effect the leaks will have on national security.

"I've heard the impact of these releases on our foreign policy described as a 'meltdown,' as a 'game-changer,' or so on, and I think those descriptions are fairly significantly overwrought. ... Is it embarrassing? Yes. Is it awkward? Yes. Consequences for U.S. foreign policy? I think fairly modest," Gates said at a press conference shortly after the cables were first released.

Despite the fact that many in the media, like Gates, also downplay the negative impact of the WikiLeaks cables, many government officials have stepped up rhetoric in the past few days, calling for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be charged with espionage, treason or worse.

In a release on his website, Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., characterized the leaks as an attack on U.S. national security that endangers the lives of Americans. He also implored the president to use all legal means necessary to shut down WikiLeaks and, waxing philosophical, called the release an assault on the "principle of transparency." Later, Lieberman attacked The New York Times for publishing the documents.

"To me The New York Times has committed at least an act of, at best, bad citizenship, but whether they have committed a crime is a matter of discussion for the justice department," Lieberman told FOX News.

Lieberman wasn't the only politician to take U.S. media outlets to task. Rep.-elect Allen West, a Florida Republican, said on a right-wing radio program that the news organizations publishing the leaked documents should be censored.

"There are different means by which you can be attacked," West said, according to a transcript published on ThinkProgress.org. "I mean, it doesn't have to be a bomb or an airplane flying into a building. It could be through leaking of very sensitive, classified information. And I think that we also should be censoring the American news agencies which enabled him to do this and also supported him and applauded him for the efforts. So thats kind of aiding and abetting a serious crime."

Mama Bear Sarah Palin took to Twitter and called WikiLeaks' release "treasonous." Her running mate and political surrogate father from 2008 was a bit more polite.

"I wish The New York Times had chosen not to [publish the leaked cables]," Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., told The Daily Beast.

Official response that goes beyond the opinions of Washington politicians has been a bit more muted, but that doesnt mean nothing is happening. As others have pointed out, if the justice department were moving to indict WikiLeaks pale-faced Australian founder, there would be no way for the American public to find out beforehand, since grand jury deliberations are secret. While Assange addresses allegations of sexual assault made against him by two Swedish women, he will have to wait for word from the American government as to whether or not theyve constructed a legal argument that could be used to request his extradition from Sweden.

WikiLeaks claims it gave the cables to the State Department prior to publishing them so that the U.S. government could provide feedback as to which documents WikiLeaks should "look at with extra care," and that the State Department refused to provide that information, instead insisting that none of the cables be released.

The State Department sent a letter, dated Nov.

27, to WikiLeaks, firmly stating the governments desire to keep the WikiLeaks documents out of the public eye. The letter, published by Reuters, says that the documents were given to WikiLeaks in a violation of American law.

"As long as WikiLeaks holds such material," the letter says, "the violation of the law is ongoing."

The letter concludes: "If you are genuinely interested in seeking to stop the damage from your actions, you should: 1) ensure WikiLeaks ceases publishing any and all such materials; 2) ensure WikiLeaks returns any and all classified U.S. Government material in its possession; and 3) remove and destroy all records of this material from WikiLeaks databases."

Much has been made about the use of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to take down websites of organizations that are anti-WikiLeaks. The DDoS attacks (which, on the scale of passionate activism techniques ranks just above changing your Facebook profile picture and many, many steps below hunger strikes) have been directed at WikiLeaks, too. Some suspect the government was behind the attacks, and there has been no word on this from the government so far, although a security expert interviewed by the Associated Press said the attackers were most likely "a bunch of geeks," not the U.S. government.

The Twitter account of State Department spokesman Philip J. Crowley acted as the voice for the state department for a few days, issuing statements to counteract accusations appearing on blogs and websites. One major tweet concerned the governments role in PayPals decision to sever ties with WikiLeaks after PayPal. There had been some speculation of U.S. government involvement after a company vice president publicly referred to a letter from the government as reason for stopping WikiLeaks service.

"The U.S. government did not write to PayPal requesting any action regarding #WikiLeaks. Not true," tweeted Crowley.

PayPal later clarified that the VP was referring to the letter written by the State Department to WikiLeaks, not a letter addressed specifically to PayPal.



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So amidst all the other ugliness, as the money-crooks and political crooks twitch & freak while the dirt beneath their rollers surfaces, there is peer  PayPal.

Not only did Paypal try to use this as a smokescreen for a quick, illegal,  and sneaky money grab, but they, themselves, used 'leaked' info to make that decision.


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A word to the wise is sufficient.

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I sure would hate to be some huge entity heavily involved with BAC in the near future... No telling what might happen.  muahahaha



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Looking over at PandaLabs Blog I see that they have discovered the very same SEO trending topic oriented, Fake Youtube page/player malware distribution scam which I found back when [non-politically influenced - LOL!] PayPal decided that Ms Pamela Gellar's (of AtlasShrugs Blog) right to free speech was 'hate speech' and cut her account off.

(Followed by a wave of harassment from Paypal's clan of paid psychopaths, goons, stalkers, and 'special advisors', all while Payapal allowed the anti-American, Anti-Christian, Anti-Isreal, Anti-Jewish, pro Islamic Jihad oriented sites to continue exercising their free speech while using the paypal donation button to fund their efforts.)

But I digress. biggrin.gif!

With the exception of the trending topic du jour, the malware scam is the same: the same fake player image, with the time remaining showing as 6:66, same youtube account username "thenameisskittles" (which last I checked was an active, valid youtube account, not sure if that is a 'victim' or the 'perp')




Since then I also found yet another place where they demonstrated that the same fake codecs/malware would auto-execute just by landing on the page regardless of whether you had NoScript set to disallow all scripting and plugins, but I don't feel like hunting down the link right now.

Thinking back now, PayPal has had a very turbulent year, PR wise.
I bet it gets worse in 2011.

muahahahahhaha  laughing.gif



-- Edited by budnonymous on Tuesday 21st of December 2010 08:02:09 AM

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Bwhahahahahahaaaaa!


FBI Raids Texas Business Tied To Operation Payback Attacks On PayPal



Although I made he video above, which points to and laughs at the fact that PayPal went down, I did not particpate in any of the DDoS attacks against any of the Korporate Kommie Krapitalists, nor is there any connection between Cappnonymous and Anonymous / 4chan.


As I have previously indicated, the best course of action is to close out your accounts at the offensive companies, and persuade others to do likewise.

The best DDoS is a "DDo$"


If these guys really wanted to hack some sites and make people take notice though, they would do something along the lines of what Vladuz did to sleazebay and painpal back in September 2007.  .  biggrin.gif

BTW where are the banking related and/or BofA leaks?

The longer this crap goes on for the more bogus it looks...

...like a world class scam or mind game of some sorts



oops almost forgot:
4chan hit by DDoS too


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FBI granted 40 search warrants in Anonymous DDoS investigation


29 Jan 11 08:00

Just on the heels of the arrest of 5 Anonymous members in the UK on Thursday, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation was granted 40 search warrants in connection with DDoS attacks that occurred against several major US corporations during the past year.

While the press release issued on Thursday by the FBI did not exclusively state which incidents the bureau is investigating, the warrants likely stem from Anonymous "Operation Avenge Assange" cyber-attacks on MasterCard, Visa, Paypal, and other corporations that refused to process WikiLeaks related transactions after US diplomatic cables were released on the internet by the organization in early December.


 

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This entire situation turned out to be quite the sham. JMO, this Assange guy is only in it for the money, which they are raking in hand over fist.

I say that because those bank leaks still have not been released after such a big stink was made of it. Behind the scenes, something must have happend to prevent that. Latest rumour I saw was that Fox News was supposedly on the "hit list".

We shall see, eh?





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