By Colin Fernandez
Last updated at 7: 42 am on 10 December 2010
Computer hackers, support the WikiLeaks to whistleblowing campaign to reduce tried yesterday is the Amazon website how do fears, grew the British Government be next.
Whitehall up his objections to a cyber attack as "Hacktivists" a revenge campaign against the perceived enemies of WikiLeaks efforts to secret information into the public domain leak on.
Specialists are each Whitehall site monitoring, after which ?hackers shut down the Swedish Government website revenge for the prosecution of WikiLeaks Julian Assange founder.
In prison: WikiLeaks founders Julian Assange was arrested earlier this week in LondonYesterday attacked have already crashed MasterCard payment systems around the world you Amazon because it had removed WikiLeaks information from its computer servers.
The electronic attack failed, but the group behind the hacking anonymous which is called - it said target computer systems around the world.Whitehall computer security would analysts are increasingly concerned that the United Kingdom will be next and are now on permanent alert.
If successful, an attack on Amazon, UK's largest online retailer, could have millions in the pre-Christmas period costs there.
Amazon was a self-proclaimed spokesman for operation payback - that swore banner by hackers used to support the WikiLeaks campaign - targeted.
His name as "Cold Blood", the 22 year-old software engineer told the BBC: "We have in recent months and years seen Governments and the EU tried to sneak up and limit the freedom of the Internet."
' Our main objectives are Amazon, MasterCard and PayPal (the online payment service).
"We feel that you have bowed to pressure from the Government."
Distancing others anonymous later message (s) of the Group of cold blood. Visa's corporate website was ?suffering intermittent error yesterday after a temporary shutdown on Wednesday night. A spokesman said customers were not affected.
MasterCard's site was disturbed that, for about six hours on Wednesday, with thousands of customers, unable to make payments.
Dutch prosecutors said a 16-year-old boy of participation of WikiLeaks cyber attacks on websites, you last night the "including MasterCard and PayPal, among others" have arrested suspect.
The youth name has not been published and it was not clear how important a role he is believed to play in the attacks.
Yesterday still WikiLeaks contentious diplomatic cables online leak, although Mr Assange, 39 detained is facing deportation proceedings that he sexually two women in Sweden attacked.
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