The recent news reports on MasterCard and Visa distributed denial of service attacks done by “anonymous” as revenge attacks has called the attackers “hackers”. These attacks are no way near hacking. Hacking is unauthorised access to computer resources and is mainly used to destroy or sell data. These people did not hack these sites and should not be called hackers. I’m not defending these “hackers” but they should be labelled as to what they really did. The media has just over reacted to try and sell their content to the highest bidder. Yes what the “hackers” have done is illegal, there’s no doubt about that. They have cost these companies money as a result of taking down their sites. Most of these “hackers” appear to be people who just want to join in and have some fun in all the chaos which has been primarily triggered by the media and they seem show very little interest in the topic itself. These attacks have only been of low level. Companies that have dealt with WikiLeaks better arm themselves for the worst because once these people actually start hacking these companies could stand to lose millions.
World War 3: Battle over the Net
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