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Risk of Unintended Consequences, Escalation in WikiLeaks "Cyberwar"

Analysis: WikiLeaks battle: a new amateur face of cyber war?

LONDON (Reuters) – The website attacks launched by supporters of WikiLeaks show 21st-century cyber warfare evolving into a more amateur and anarchic affair than many predicted.

While most countries have plowed much more attention and resources into cyber security in recent years, most of the debate has focused on the threat from militant groups such as al Qaeda or mainstream state on state conflict.

But attempts to silence WikiLeaks after the leaking of some 250,000 classified State Department cables seem to have produced something rather different -- something of a popular rebellion amongst hundreds or thousands of tech-savvy activists.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101209/...arfare_amateur

WikiLeaks backers hit MasterCard and Visa in cyberstrike

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL3E6N80HH20101208

Army of hackers targets the Swedish government, Sarah Palin and credit card giants in WikiLeaks 'Operation: Payback'


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz17d5BIdhu

WikiLeaks hacktivists announce they are attacking Amazon.com next: RT @Op_Payback: TARGET: WWW.AMAZON.COM LOCKED ON!!! http://read.bi/dLJYFS


WikiLeaks Supporters Hack MasterCard's Website, Force Offline
From Twitter:

'Anonymous' activist group claims to have forced MasterCard's website offline in WikiLeaks-related protest http://bit.ly/hBKWmw

Assange's 'poison pill' file impossible to stop, expert says
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/12/08/wikileaks.poison.pill/index.html?hpt=C1