The global news media is acting as an unwitting accomplice in the cyber attacks bringing down the sites of major corporations.

At least one script kiddie in Bristol has been participating, and with the increasing media attention more and more from Bristol will be joining the cyber terrorists.
The perpetrators are using a easy to install application http://gizmodo.com/5709630/what-is-loic

That apparently has little risk to the user because a DDoS knocks everything offline—at least when it works as intended—the log files that would normally record each incoming connection typically just don't work. And even if they do, many LOIC users claim that another user was on their network or that their machine was part of a bot net—a DDoS client delivered by virus that performs like a hivemind LOIC, minus the computer owner actually knowing they are participating.

There is a flurry of Global media attention on the attacks that brought down Visa and Mastercard
https://news.google.co.uk/news/more?hl=en&expIds=17259,...gIwAA

Over 12,000 people have downloaded the application in the last 12 hours
https://github.com/NewEraCracker/LOIC/downloads