Anonymous, loosely affiliated group has started attacking organizations viewed as being hostile to WikiLeaks. The group, dubbed Anonymous, launched a DDOS attack on Monday that knocked Swiss payment transaction firm PostFinance’s Web site offline. The attack was in apparent retaliation for the firm’s freezing of an account set up by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assanage. Anonymous’ campaign over copyright enforcement issues, Operation:Payback, has resulted in several DDOS attacks against sites belonging to the Recording Industry Association of America, Motion Picture Association of. America and others.”]
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