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<blockquote data-quote="poopgiggle" data-source="post: 1389800" data-attributes="member: 6406"><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/cyber-hackers-that-took-down-swiss-bank-site-have-now-taken-down-mastercardcom-2010-12" target="_blank">http://www.businessinsider.com/cyber-hackers-that-took-down-swiss-bank-site-have-now-taken-down-mastercardcom-2010-12</a>FTA:This is just a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service), so my guess is it&#039;s Anonymous getting a bunch of kids to overload the server like they did with Scientology. There are botnets large enough to do this but their owners aren&#039;t the kind of people who would do this.I just think it&#039;s entertaining that a company like Mastercard is being dragged into this.E: Also, whatever you do, don&#039;t call these people &quot;hackers&quot; or call Anonymous a &quot;hacking group.&quot;If they are, YOU can be a hacker too if you point your browser at mastercard.com and press F5 over and over.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="poopgiggle, post: 1389800, member: 6406"] [url]http://www.businessinsider.com/cyber-hackers-that-took-down-swiss-bank-site-have-now-taken-down-mastercardcom-2010-12[/url] FTA: This is just a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service), so my guess is it's Anonymous getting a bunch of kids to overload the server like they did with Scientology. There are botnets large enough to do this but their owners aren't the kind of people who would do this. I just think it's entertaining that a company like Mastercard is being dragged into this. E: Also, whatever you do, don't call these people "hackers" or call Anonymous a "hacking group." If they are, YOU can be a hacker too if you point your browser at mastercard.com and press F5 over and over. [/QUOTE]

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