Big Mac Attack! Shaq Attack? Oh Right: Hack Attack!

It seems to be "on" in cybersphere..  Hackers hit Mastercard and Visa over Wikileaks row  Opening salvo excerpts in italics:

Hackers have attacked the websites of credit card giants Mastercard and Visa.

The attacks came after the Anonymous group of hackers pledged to pursue firms that have withdrawn services from Wikileaks.

Mastercard payments were disrupted but the firm said there was "no impact" on people's ability to use their cards.

Visa's website also experienced problems. The attacks came after both companies stopped processing payments to the whistle-blowing site.

So far, it's Hackers, Master Card, Visa, and now.. Twitter..

Entries on the Twitter page of Operation Payback, the Anonymous campaign, said the Visa site had been taken down.
Then..
But in a day of fast-moving developments, the Anonymous Twitter page then went down, replaced by a message from Twitter saying the account had been suspended.  (I'm guessing they're next, or on the list..)
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Earlier the BBC was contacted by a payment firm linked to Mastercard that said its customers had "a complete loss of service".

Master Card downplays the event, as expected..

"While we have seen limited interruption in some web-based services, cardholders can continue to use their cards for secure transactions globally."
And:
Anonymous, which claimed to have carried out the attack, is a loose-knit group of hacktivists, with links to the notorious message board 4chan.

It said that it has hit several targets, including the website of the prosecutors who are acting in a legal case against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

An Anonymous member told AFP news agency the group would extend their campaign to anyone with "an anti-Wikileaks agenda".

These people are fucking serious, and they're strong enough to inflict some serious damage before they're all apprehended or decide they're done.  As a precaution, you might consider how you'll live your life with extended Internet(and possibly electrical, but that's another topic..) outages, banking disruptions, distribution chaos..  Me?  I plan on lots of jogging, yoga, and P90X.