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Credit card firms want to stalk you on the web
A report in the Wall Street Journal said Visa and Mastercard have cunning plans to use what they know about you to push ads at you when you’re online. -
Wikileaks stops publishing
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said that since last December an "arbitrary and unlawful financial blockade" had been imposed by Bank of America, Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and Western Union and this wiped out more than 95 percent of the outfit's revenue. -
Google stole our secrets
LawAccording to Reuters, Osama Bedier and Stephanie Tilenius, used to work for PayPal and led the launch yesterday of Google's own mobile payment system in partnership with MasterCard, Citigroup and phone company Sprint. -
Google readies Android NFC for data gathering
The all encompassing Google, known for its "accidental" data collecting, is getting cosy with MasterCard and Citigroup. Together the trio have come up with technology which will allow customers to use their Android mobile phones to buy items by waving their smartphones in front of a small reader at -
Anonymous members arrested in Blighty
The old bill could have finally caught up with some of the members of the DDoS and social activism group Anonymous. -
ISP internet policing resulting in corporate censorship - report
The recent pulling of support for Wikileaks by Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and Everydns was cited as an example of how companies are being pressured to take action against allegedly illegal online activity without the matter being brought before the traditional legal system, which is better able to dea -
Northern Ireland political party websites hacked by Irish language activist
The hack follows attacks on the website of one of the largest parties in the Republic of Ireland, Fine Gael, earlier this week. That attack put up to 4,000 supporter details in the hands of Anonymous, the group behind attacks on PayPal, Visa, MasterCard and Amazon over their removal of services for -
Wikileaks gives Bradley Manning $15,100 for legal defence
That offer dropped by more than half in December to $20,000, possibly because of Julian Assange's own legal battles. Today the number is still $4,900 short. -
Irish political party website hacked by Anonymous
The website of one of Ireland's largest political parties, Fine Gael, was hacked last night by Anonymous, the same group behind a number of DDoS attacks on MasterCard, Visa, Paypal and Amazon for failing to support Wikileaks. -
Bank of America buys up embarrassing domain names
Last week, the bank joined Visa, MasterCard and PayPal in cutting off Wikileaks payments processing. -
Dutch Wikileaks hacktivist would "do it again"
When a group of Dutch teens allegedly conducted cyberattacks against Mastercard and Visa, then the Dutch National Prosecutors website in early December they got more than they bargained for. -
Operation Payback moves to fax
Operation Payback has launched a "Leakflood" mission, which encourages its members to send a large number of faxes to Amazon, MasterCard, Moneybookers, PayPal, Visa and Tableau Software. -
Anonymous attack on Amazon.com fails, hackers move on
"I believe that in the case of Amazon there was not the same level of public support for an attack as there was for attacks on MasterCard, PayPal, Visa and Swiss Bank, who because of the financial nature of their business are easy targets. -
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Anonymous takes down Visa, Amazon, PayPal, Swiss bank, Assange prosecutor
This week a hacker group, calling itself Anonymous, led a series of attacks called Operation: Payback. They targeted MasterCard, which stopped processing donations to Wikileaks. -
Hackers threaten to take down Paypal and Twitter over Wikileaks blocks
The threat cannot be taken lightly, as there have also been reports that MasterCard has been the victim of a DDoS attack today, rendering the service offline. With Visa also blocking Wikileaks it may join the hackers' growing list. -
Pentagon Papers leaker supports Wikileaks, Datacell to sue Visa and Mastercard
Wikileaks may be under attack from many angles, but today it gained additional support from ex-intelligence officers, including the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers some fourty years ago, as well as the credit card processing company Datacell, which said it would sue Visa and MasterCard billions o -
Julian Assange arrested in UK, refused bail
UpdatedAccording to Mastercard: "MasterCard rules prohibit customers from directly or indirectly engaging in or facilitating any action that is illegal." You've got to consider who makes the laws - they have the power on face value.
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