Wow!!! Um...not real sure how I feel about this... Anonymous has ended a rather busy week with a hack of the CIA website, which is currently offline. "CIA TANGO DOWN: https://www.cia.gov/ #Anonymous," the @YourAnonNews feed tweeted around 3:30pm Eastern. The CIA.gov website has been unresponsive for about an hour. Anonymous did not release details about the attack, but the group usually uses distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks to take down its targets. Last month, in the wake of the Megaupload shutdown, Anonymous also took down the websites for the Department of Justice, the Copyright Office, and the FBI. Just last week, meanwhile, it also leaked a conference call between the FBI and Scotland Yard in which agents discussed ongoing hacker cases. Anonymous reportedly accessed the call because a foreign police official who received the conference call invite forwarded it to a personal account, where it was intercepted by Anonymous. This week, the hacker collective focused its attention on overseas issues. It leaked emails from the office of Syrian President Bashar Assad, which included prep material for a recent Barbara Walters interview. It also released emails from the legal team who represented Frank Wuterich, the U.S. staff sergeant who led an assault on the Iraqi city of Haditha that left 24 unarmed civilians dead. Also this week, a hacker loosely affiliated with Anonymous posted code from security firm Symantec on The Pirate Bay. The hacker had reportedly demanded a $50,000 ransom in exchange for keeping the code offline, but negotiations broke down. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2400140,00.asp
Send a message. Unfortunately due to movie culture, hackers will be demonized and labeled terrorists. There will be no popular support.
I bet so many country folk are quivering in fear. They barely know what the internet is, and now "Anonymous" is hacking a very vital (to their knowledge) CIA website??! They are gonna be up in arms wanting SOPA and PIPA and ACTA to pass
And things like this is why I am relatively more sympathetic to SOPA compared most people on this forum. **** the Anon thugs.
so what? CIA.gov is a public relations website for a agency that wants nothing to do with the public.
i hope they capture this anonymous person and torture him. also, i would like to take this opportunity to say how much i love our government and what a great job they are doing! i would also like to add that i think fatherland...err, i mean homeland security chief janet napolitano is a very handsome lady.
I just wonder what keeps that massive potential for damage in some type of control? Can someone with an IT background explain how such powerful organizations like the CIA don't have the security to deal with these attacks?
I don't think the CIA actually hides any top government secrets on their website. This is similar to thief breaking into a child's tree house which sits in a mansion's yard.
I guess the "wow" factor in this is that they messed with the CIA, the actual accomplishment of taking their site down isn't really a big deal. If these folks ever get caught they won't see the light of day, probably end up in a Polish prison.
**** the government. I hope anon takes down every .gov website and demands them to drop the SOPA bill.
