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 Social Hacking
The Future of Information Guerrilla Warfare
The United States diplomatic cables
leak began on 28 November 2010
when the website WikiLeaks and five
major newspapers published
confidential documents of detailed
correspondences between the U.S.
State Department and its diplomatic
missions around the world.
Source: Wikipedia
Julian Assange, Wikileaks
website founder detained in
custody awaiting extradition
proceedings to Sweden
Amazon.com removed WikiLeaks from its servers on 1
December 2010 at 19:30 GMT

4 December 2010 Paypal cut off the account used by
WikiLeaks to collect donations

6 December, the Swiss bank PostFinance announced
that it had frozen the assets of Assange

6 December 2010 MasterCard stopped payments to
WikiLeaks

7 December Visa stopped payments to WikiLeaks
A 4 December 2010 article by
MSNBC, reported that the
Obama administration has
warned federal government
employees and students in
educational institutions studying
towards careers in public service
that they must refrain from
downloading or linking to any
WikiLeaks documents.

Access to WikiLeaks has been
blocked for federal workers. The U.S.
Library of Congress, the U.S.
Commerce Department and other
government agencies
#operationpayback
Online activists known as
“Anonymous” have initiated what
they called Operation: Payback, a
call to action to bring down the
websites of companies that have
publicly removed services once
used by the Wikileaks website.
http://d.imagehost.org/0846/loiic.png

                    PayPal.com
                  _______
Over 2200 people participated in the
attacker chat room and there are
currently over 1,700
computers in the voluntary
botnet "army".
Sites attacked and the downtime from #operationpayback.
Source http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/tis-the-season-
of-ddos-wikileaks-editio/
MasterCard.com, Visa.com, PayPal.com was
down intermitently on 8 December 2010.

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Social Hacking

  • 1.  Social Hacking The Future of Information Guerrilla Warfare
  • 2. The United States diplomatic cables leak began on 28 November 2010 when the website WikiLeaks and five major newspapers published confidential documents of detailed correspondences between the U.S. State Department and its diplomatic missions around the world. Source: Wikipedia
  • 3. Julian Assange, Wikileaks website founder detained in custody awaiting extradition proceedings to Sweden
  • 4. Amazon.com removed WikiLeaks from its servers on 1 December 2010 at 19:30 GMT 4 December 2010 Paypal cut off the account used by WikiLeaks to collect donations 6 December, the Swiss bank PostFinance announced that it had frozen the assets of Assange 6 December 2010 MasterCard stopped payments to WikiLeaks 7 December Visa stopped payments to WikiLeaks
  • 5. A 4 December 2010 article by MSNBC, reported that the Obama administration has warned federal government employees and students in educational institutions studying towards careers in public service that they must refrain from downloading or linking to any WikiLeaks documents. Access to WikiLeaks has been blocked for federal workers. The U.S. Library of Congress, the U.S. Commerce Department and other government agencies
  • 7.
  • 8. Online activists known as “Anonymous” have initiated what they called Operation: Payback, a call to action to bring down the websites of companies that have publicly removed services once used by the Wikileaks website.
  • 9.
  • 11.
  • 12. Over 2200 people participated in the attacker chat room and there are currently over 1,700 computers in the voluntary botnet "army".
  • 13. Sites attacked and the downtime from #operationpayback. Source http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/tis-the-season- of-ddos-wikileaks-editio/
  • 14. MasterCard.com, Visa.com, PayPal.com was down intermitently on 8 December 2010. Is this Social Media for change?