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In December 2010, a group of nearly 3000 activists under the name "Operation Payback" launched online attacks against PayPal, MasterCard, and Visa, briefly knocking the three financial services' sites offline and preventing consumers from accessing ATMs or online banking services. . The activists retaliated against the three companies for severing ties with WikiLeaks, an online repository for whistleblower data that had recently included thousands of secret communications from the U.S. State Department and other world governmental agencies. Nine months later more than a dozen people--most between the ages of 19 and 24--were arrested in connection with these denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, even as new attacks were hitting corporate, military, and government sites worldwide. The link for this article located at PC Advisor is no longer available. . The activists retaliated against the three companies for severing ties with WikiLeaks, an online rep. december, group, nearly, activists, under, 'operation, payback', launched, onlin. . Dave Wreski

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Exploring Netwar Strategies and Corporate Responses to Cyber Threats

There's a war brewing in cyberspace. Make that a Netwar, so dubbed in Countering the New Terrorism, a book published last year by The RAND Corp., a Santa Monica, Calif.-based nonprofit research group formed during World War II.. . .. There's a war brewing in cyberspace. Make that a Netwar, so dubbed in Countering the New Terrorism, a book published last year by The RAND Corp., a Santa Monica, Calif.-based nonprofit research group formed during World War II. It'll be a long time before remote-controlled robots fight battles to keep intruders out of office buildings (though unconfirmed reports circulated among security newsgroups in September did claim that a company in Thailand has invented a gun-toting robot directed through a remote-controlled camera). But many players, including the government, RAND and Winn Schwartau, a security analyst in Seminole, Fla., say this information war is already upon us. And in his Internet survival book, Cybershock, Schwartau claims that some private corporations are already launching military-style counterattacks to protect their interests. The link for this article located at ComputerWorld is no longer available. . There's a war brewing in cyberspace. Make that a Netwar, so dubbed in Countering the New Terrorism, . there's, brewing, cyberspace, netwar, dubbed, countering, terrorism. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

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