Wikileaks, Trigger "War of the 21st Century"

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The world entered a new era of war following the development of thousands of publications owned by the U.S. government's secret documents by the site Wikileaks. This new war was just relying on the intelligence and sophistication of this new technology because the war took place in cyberspace.

The activists in the virtual world that supports Wikileaks launched a "war of the 21st century" against those who are regarded as hindering the party and tried to silence Wikileaks, like Mastercard, PayPal, Visa, and a bank in Switzerland who claimed to block the assets of Wikileaks received via donations secret sympathizers pembocor sites, including Amazon which prohibit Wikileaks uses the company's servers.

To reply to the actions of companies, cyber activists Wikileaks supporters formed a group named Anonymous. This group launched a DDoS attack (denial of service) to computers owned by credit card companies are freezing the assets of Wikileaks. The group called their attacks "Operation Avenge Assange", took the last name boss Julian Assange Wikileaks.

Anonymous groups using social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter to coordinated attacks on sites owned by an entity that is considered trying to silence Wikileaks. As a result, Facebook and Twitter to block the group's accounts.

Journalist and technology expert Kevin Anderson at Al Jazeera said, this virtual world war involving supporters and opponents of Wikileaks and has occurred in recent weeks. "This is a war between cats and rats," said Anderson.

Meanwhile in Holland, a 16-year-old teen was arrested for claiming to have carried out the attack to the site Visa and Master Card credit card companies because both were blocked donations to Wikileaks.

The war in cyberspace was effective for hitting "the enemies" Wikileaks. Companies that site was attacked, potentially suffered heavy losses. "This proves the existence of the power residing in the human fingertip, that the world of the Internet is very vulnerable and very high risk," says John Walker of Secure Bastion, an internet security company.

"Forces" Wikileaks supporters carried out attacks using a program termed DDoS or "botnets", which bombard the target sites with the "request information" that burden the site and consequently difficult to access.

The attackers could launch their attacks from a personal computer to download the software provided by Anonymous. Until Wednesday, the software had been downloaded 6,000 times.

Experts from the institute's security strategy Imperva, Noa Bar Yosef call this situation as an "episode which caused a snowball effect." The more attention, more and more people willing to volunteer to conduct attacks 'botnet', "he said.

On the other hand, the Wikileaks site itself states that they also had several times been targeted attacks that forced the site open a new domain.