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MasterCard, Other Websites Downed by Hackers Supporting Assange

July 16, 2014Conflict & Justice

A hacker group known as “Anonymous” has reportedly initiated “Operation Payback” a call for attacks on several websites in retaliation for those sites pulling services from Wikileaks in the past 24 hours. So far, Mastercard’s website has been brought down, PayPal is under attack as is Swiss bank PostFinance, which recently froze Julian Assange’s bank […]

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August 15, 2013Global Politics

Struggling Wikileaks Stops Publishing Classified Files

August 14, 2013Global Politics

Mastercard, Other Sites Brought Down by Wikileaks Supporters

August 14, 2013Conflict & Justice

Arrest of Julian Assange sparks online ‘operation payback’

August 14, 2013Arts, Culture & Media

Credit crisis: when banks cancel credit cards

August 14, 2013Business, Economics and Jobs

Consumers are reporting this week that Citibank recently closed some of its Shell-branded Mastercard accounts with only days’ notice and no stated reason. We ask Adam Levin (New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs) how consumers can protect themselves.

Wikileaks cyberwar

August 14, 2013Arts, Culture & Media

A global group of online activists is making life difficult for companies who don’t want to do business with WikiLeaks. The World’s Clark Boyd has more on the Anonymous group, and its goals.

The Wikileaks fallout continues

August 14, 2013Conflict & Justice

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is in a British jail awaiting a hearing next week regarding his possible extradition to Sweden. The fallout from WikiLeaks’ disclosure of hundreds of US State Department cables continues. The World’s Clark Boyd reports.