Hacktivists have asked for botnet operators to donate their botnets to Operation Payback. A 16-year-old Dutch boy arrested by authorities in the Netherlands for participating in attacks by Anonymous. DDoS traffic appears to be centered on a specific PayPal server, www.irc.paypal, says Imperva’s Tal Be’ery. The plan is now to go after Amazon’s site, security experts following the attacks say. “I think Amazon is on deck,” says senior security researcher for Arbor Networks.”]
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