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• PayPal faces new restrictions in India

  PayPal has introduced new rules for its customers in India, including a limit on the value of each export-related receipt to US$500.

• Facebook most blacklisted site says Open DNS

  Social media websites remain top when it comes to blacklisting websites according to Open DNS's annual report. The web security and filtering company has produced a report detailing some of the key findings of 2010.

• PayPal founder backs New Zealand submarine link

  An investment fund led by PayPal co-founder and chief executive, Peter Thiel, has become one of the first to financially back a New Zealand submarine cable venture, committing $NZ5.5 million ($AUD4.24 million) to the project.
  

• Facebook eyes possible IPO, public financial disclosures

  Just days after news surfaced that Facebook had received a massive cash infusion, reports are out that the social network is preparing to disclose financial information or prepping for an initial public offering.

• Apple boots WikiLeaks app from iPhone store

  Apple yesterday pulled an iPhone app from the App Store that let users read secret U.S. diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks and follow the controversial organization's Twitter feed.

• Bank of America cuts services for WikiLeaks

  Bank of America has joined the growing list of financial and technology companies that have cut off services to WikiLeaks, a move that comes amid speculation that the whistleblower site is preparing to release information about the bank.

• Govt websites could face WikiLeaks revenge attack

  The UK's national security advisor has warned that government websites used to upload tax returns or claims benefits are at risk of attack from hackers who support <a href="http://wikileaks.org">WikiLeaks</a>.

• Operation Payback has new target: Corporate fax machines

  The activists behind Operation Payback have come up with a new way to annoy corporations that have severed their ties with WikiLeaks: bombard them with faxes.

• Hacker group defends attacks on WikiLeaks foes

  Anonymous, a loosely affiliated group of Internet vigilantes that has claimed responsibility for a series of Internet attacks against organizations perceived as hostile to WikiLeaks, today sought to cast itself as more focused on symbolic protest than outright disruption.

• Has progress been made in fighting DDoS attacks?

  As the distributed denial-of-service attacks spawned by this week's WikiLeaks events continue, network operators are discussing what progress, if any, has been made over the past decade to detect and thwart DoS attacks.

• Anonymous attack on Amazon.com appears to fail

  This morning's planned distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against Amazon.com by Anonymous, a hacker group that has launched similar attacks against organizations it sees attempting to censor WikiLeaks, appears to have failed.

• Group used 30,000-node botnet in MasterCard, PayPal attacks

  PayPal's website was hit late Wednesday by two botnets as online activists continued their Web attacks on companies that have severed their relationships with WikiLeaks.

• Dutch arrest 16-year-old related to WikiLeaks attacks

  Dutch authorities arrested a 16-year-old boy on Wednesday in relation to the cyberattacks against Visa, MasterCard and PayPal, which were aimed at punishing those companies for cutting off services to WikiLeaks.

• Pro-WikiLeaks cyber army gains strength; thousands join DDoS attacks

  The retaliatory attacks by pro-WikiLeaks activists are growing in strength as hackers add botnets and thousands of people download an open-source attack tool, security researchers said today.

• MasterCard, Visa, others hit by DDoS attacks over WikiLeaks

  The main Web site of MasterCard was knocked offline today in a large distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack apparently launched in retaliation for the credit card company's decision this week to cut off services to WikiLeaks.