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Visa is under DDoS attack
Getting "An error occurred while processing your request." error at visa.com right now. I wonder if their payment gateways will suffer like mastercard's did.
- chipsy 16y agoI had an error yesterday evening. Worked the second try, so I thought nothing of it. Knowing that CC sites are under attack now...
- chaosmachine 16y agoKeep trying, I'm sure it will load eventually...
- steveklabnik 16y agoYep. http://twitter.com/anonops/status/12613087077072896 http://twitter.com/anonops/status/12613087077072896
- david_shaw 16y agoThis is a confirmed target of "Operation Payback," a 4chan/Anonymous attack against those who have opposed Wikileaks. The primary targets include MasterCard (which was hit earlier today) and Visa, who refused to process donations to Wikileaks. The Swedish Prosecution authority is apparently also on the list. Although these types of DDoS attacks (they are using the Low Orbit Ion Cannon tool available at https://github.com/NewEraCracker/LOIC/ https://github.com/NewEraCracker/LOIC/ ) do not affect cardholder data, it will render legitimate users completely unable to login to their merchant accounts.
- teoruiz 16y agoI really, really don't understand how can this happen if www.visa.com is Akamaized.
- gasull 16y agoBecause Akamai may have a limit too.
- WestCoastJustin 16y agoI'm not saying this is the case today but... in general Akamai works be finding your location and directing you to the closest servers. The closest server might be overloaded but the network could be functioning fairly well for everyone outside your service zone.
- SheerazRaza 16y agoYes they completely busted them see this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4TgCU1CWYo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4TgCU1CWYo
- edkennedy 16y agoThe site went down almost as soon as the attack begun... http://isitup.org/www.visa.com http://isitup.org/www.visa.com
- sukuriant 16y agoWhat does Anonymous hope to prove? What, do they expect people to say, "Oh why you're right. Wikileaks is a good thing and we should totally support it. Thank you for opening my eyes by horrendously disrupting my business for the day." That's asinine!
- storborg 16y agoIs that a serious question? They're trying to show Visa that there are quite a lot of people who are very upset with them for booting Wikileaks. It may be asinine, but many political demonstrations are.
- sukuriant 16y agoA botnet can be run by a single person, though; how does DDoSing say that a lot of people are upset when just a few people with a lot of bots can perform the act?
- storborg 16y agoSorry, I'm not saying it's not misguided--just that they're trying to create the impression in Visa's mind that a lot of people are upset.
- sukuriant 16y agoApologies. In the CNN article now posted on Hacker News, http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2010/12/more_wikileaks http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2010/12/more_wikileak... , the Low Orbit Ion Canon is volunteer. It would seem that there are that many who are agreeing with the assault, or at least not removing their agreement with Anonymous' general decisions.
- pdelgallego 16y agoWhat does people in a strike hope to prove when they stop the traffic? We live in a economy of attention, and right now, the attack against Visa and Mastercard has been in every newspaper, in every tv channel, and is overflowing the internet. This kind of press is priceless in this kind of economy.
- WestCoastJustin 16y agoWill this have any impact on customers wanting to use their Visa card? For example, if I head down to my local dinner, will my Visa/Mastercard transaction get processed? I'd wager that the Visa network engineers would segregate all customer transactions. Processing would take place outside their general www/office/etc traffic.
- vchien 16y agohttp://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2010/12/operation-payback-announces-on-twitter-planned-web-attack-on-visa-after-wikileaks-mastercard.html http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2010/12/operation...