this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. captioning sponsored by wpbt tom: good evening and thanks for joining us. susie gharib is off tonight. i m joined by suzanne pratt. both mastercard and visa s corporate websites were down today, but not by choice. supporters of the controversial website wikileaks claimed responsibility for a series of cyber attacks. suzanne: tom, hackers flooded the sites with traffic, overwhelming servers and shutting them down. the attacks came after mastercard and visa both stopped processing donations to wikileaks. tom: other organizations that pulled support for wikileaks were also targeted. so, what can businesses do to protect themselves from similar attacks? erika miller reports. reporter: floods and hurricanes aren t the only disasters businesses need to consider. there are also potential man- made calamities, like cyber attacks. people who tried to connect to mastercard s corporate webs
this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. captioning sponsored by wpbt tom: good evening and thanks for joining us. susie gharib is off tonight. i m joined by suzanne pratt. both mastercard and visa s corporate websites were down today, but not by choice. supporters of the controversial website wikileaks claimed responsibility for a series of cyber attacks. suzanne: tom, hackers flooded the sites with traffic, overwhelming servers and shutting them down. the attacks came after mastercard and visa both stopped processing donations to wikileaks. tom: other organizations that pulled support for wikileaks were also targeted. so, what can businesses do to protect themselves from similar attacks? erika miller reports. reporter: floods and hurricanes aren t the only disasters businesses need to consider. there are also potential man- made calamities, like cyber attacks. people who tried to connect to mastercard s corporate webs
this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. captioning sponsored by wpbt tom: good evening and thanks for joining us. susie gharib is off tonight. i m joined by suzanne pratt. both mastercard and visa s corporate websites were down today, but not by choice. supporters of the controversial website wikileaks claimed responsibility for a series of cyber attacks. suzanne: tom, hackers flooded the sites with traffic, overwhelming servers and shutting them down. the attacks came after mastercard and visa both stopped processing donations to wikileaks. tom: other organizations that pulled support for wikileaks were also targeted. so, what can businesses do to protect themselves from similar attacks? erika miller reports. reporter: floods and hurricanes aren t the only disasters businesses need to consider. there are also potential man- made calamities, like cyber attacks. people who tried to connect to mastercard s corporate webs
this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. captioning sponsored by wpbt tom: good evening and thanks for joining us. susie gharib is off tonight. i m joined by suzanne pratt. both mastercard and visa s corporate websites were down today, but not by choice. supporters of the controversial website wikileaks claimed responsibility for a series of cyber attacks. suzanne: tom, hackers flooded the sites with traffic, overwhelming servers and shutting them down. the attacks came after mastercard and visa both stopped processing donations to wikileaks. tom: other organizations that pulled support for wikileaks were also targeted. so, what can businesses do to protect themselves from similar attacks? erika miller reports. reporter: floods and hurricanes aren t the only disasters businesses need to consider. there are also potential man- made calamities, like cyber attacks. people who tried to connect to mastercard s corporate webs
this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. captioning sponsored by wpbt tom: good evening and thanks for joining us. susie gharib is off tonight. i m joined by suzanne pratt. both mastercard and visa s corporate websites were down today, but not by choice. supporters of the controversial website wikileaks claimed responsibility for a series of cyber attacks. suzanne: tom, hackers flooded the sites with traffic, overwhelming servers and shutting them down. the attacks came after mastercard and visa both stopped processing donations to wikileaks. tom: other organizations that pulled support for wikileaks were also targeted. so, what can businesses do to protect themselves from similar attacks? erika miller reports. reporter: floods and hurricanes aren t the only disasters businesses need to consider. there are also potential man- made calamities, like cyber attacks. people who tried to connect to mastercard s corporate webs