LulzSec hackers claim CIA website shutdown
 

The hacker group Lulz Security has claimed it has brought down the public-facing website of the US Central Intelligence Agency.

The alleged attack on CIA.gov occurred on the same day the group opened a telephone request line so its fans could suggest potential targets.

On its Twitter feed, the group wrote: "Tango down - cia.gov - for the lulz".

The CIA website was inaccessible at times on Wednesday but appeared to be back up on Thursday.

LulzSec's claim could not immediately be verified.

It was unclear if the outage was due to the group's efforts or to the large number of internet users trying to check the site.

'Denial of service'

LulzSec has risen to prominence in recent months by attacking Sony, Nintendo, several US broadcasters, and the public-facing site of the US Senate.

On Wednesday it claimed to have launched denial of service attacks on several websites as a result of opening its "request line", although it gave no details.

The claim regarding the CIA.gov website emerged a few hours later. A CIA spokesman told the Associated Press the agency was "looking into" the report.

LulzSec publicised the details of its telephone hotline on its Twitter feed.

Callers to the US number are met with a recorded message, in a heavy French accent, by an individual calling himself Pierre Dubois.

While the 614 area code appears to relate to the state of Ohio, it is unlikely that this is its real location.

Lulz Security said it had used distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) against eight sites suggested by callers.

It also claimed to have hit the websites of gaming magazine The Escapist, and multiplayer games EVE Online and League of Legends.

DDoS attacks typically involve crashing a website by inundating it with requests from computers under the attacker's control.

Little is known about Lulz Security, other than their apparent "hacktivist" motivation.

The organisations and companies that it targets are often portrayed as having acted against the interests of citizens or consumers.

Its high-profile attack on SonyPictures.com exposed the company's ongoing inability to secure users' personal data, LulzSec claimed.

Along with Anonymous, LulzSec has raised the profile of hacker groups as a potential threat to online services.

Hacktivists see their role as staging valid protests in the most high profile way possible, according to Peter Wood, founder of security consultancy First Base.

"The things they are exploiting at the moment are the sort of mistakes that organisations seem to have been making ever since they connected to the internet.

"Finally there are some players out there who are using them as a means to protest. Whether everyone agrees with them is a different question."

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they are painting a target on themselves
for what graffitti?

So cia had bad security on their public site ? Or they are super hackers? Or it was inside job? :)

Guess who just made the "shit list."
Fuck with guys that "terminate with extreme prejudice?"
Not so smart ...
Does the Mafia have a web site too? :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Was a big article on them yesterday on huffington.

Might not be as easy to catch them as people think.

They also use the name " Anonymous" and have adopted the likeness of Guy Faulks. ( not sure about the spelling of that name ")

How hard could it be to be anonymous?

A big fucking wifi-antenna, hack a WLAN far away from your location with a fake MAC-address. Connect through the WLAN and then use some computers in the botnet as a proxy-chain.

I bet it would be extremely hard to catch these guys.

Spain already arrested a few of them. So not that hard

I have a few gvt site suggestions for them to take down :)

they have said time and time again that they are not anon... :2 cents:





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Guess who made the 'no idea how Anonymous works or is set up' list?

You!

They arrested some script kiddies that didn't know how to use the software.

Those where just kids using LOIC without any proxy at all directly from their homes.

all it takes is one person who knew enough info to lead on to the next person... nobody is untouchable...

Wanna place a bet on that?

I bet you 500 bucks that they will never 'close down' Anonymous.

The problem, you see, is when an organisation is not an organisation, yet is treated like an organisation.

They will carry on, and stupid script kiddie foot soldiers will carry on getting caught until they figure out TOR properly.

Those guys were total noobz, literally script kiddies using a probably backdoored lamer dos tool called LOIC "low orbit ion cannon" and making "pew pew" sounds as they "fire the lazers". Not even in the same ballpark.

That's probably exactly what they are as a group anyway. I would guess that they are all kids or at least very young guys and that they are excited about what they are doing and feeling pretty "powerful".

I would say that they will all get caught. But hell...look at how long it took to find Bin Laden. :(
So these guys will probably grow out of this and get real jobs and wives and kids and leave this all behind and be replaced by the next group of kids in a few years and never get caught.

nope... i suspect that there are people involved as old as forties maybe even fifties..

the kids that are getting caught are just wannabe's..

the top guys will never be caught... :2 cents:





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Yep.

I agree.

But I think that the two groups. Anon and these guys are far more mixed than anyone knows. They wont admit to being part of one or the other when it is most likely the same group.

I realize this SOUNDS like big news, but it's the CIA public website...seriously, who gives a fuck about that? And it was DDoS which unlike actual hacking, a retarded monkey could do.

yeah because there could NEVER be "grown up" hackers...

yes and history would tell us that organizations can really keep a secret forever...wait...no.. they are graffiti artists dying to be 'heard' of course they are going to tell too many people and of course they will get caught. As i said, nobody is untouchable.

they never went to a porn convention so they don't exist.

If you start a grudge contest with a government intelligence agency you will lose big in the end.

Never Forgive
Never Forget

Transmission from the Lulz ship on the 7 seas
Owning all your data, yah that was fu*king me
Cracking, hacking, white hats beware
Were LulzSec hoes, were not going anywhere

Spyware, we're right there, knock down your firewall
Cutting through your servers like a spinning mitorsaw
you wish you had the tactics but it needs practice
ask those sony bastards, yah bitch we hacked it


The Lulz boat, we cut throat, now you get owned
The Lulz boat you dumb hoes, act like you know
x2

Why is there SQL Injection everywhere?

Injection, infection, that's how you get owned
Remote execution now you bow to the throne
Drop your whole netblock and sink into the sea
Go and check your logs but your not going to see me
Net rap hacks trash you bastards please
See how I drop your database into CSV
Taking over the Internet one server at a time
We're Lulz Sec baby, read your source line by line

The Lulz boat, we cut throat, now you get owned
The Lulz boat you dumb hoes, act like you know
x2

on the lulz boat...

Really lets you know how unsecure we are...

Now realize that the Russians, N. Koreans and the Chinese have been silently hacking all of that same shit for years...

Some members of Anonymous is going after the wrong guys. They need to broaden there vision and conduct attacks against Chinese firms and government.

Thats something everyone could get behind and make a great name while doing something effective and positive. As much as I like them exposing American government faults and corporate bullshit its nothing compared to the outright theft and corrupt things the Chinese Government and third world countries do. You know our SUpposed fair trade partners that scam us at every corner? Exploiting weak spots in systems may harden area's up that were vulnerable but still...

As a member of Anonymous I do not like the latest attacks.
They are not important. Other Anon members they know the latest are mere pranks. The hardcore need to do something big. Exposing the weakness of Americas trade partners that engage in slave labor, theft might wake up people to call on our government to stop todays current unfair trade positions. America and Europe are stolen from daily and charged interest on top of it.

Our system is stolen from daily by foreign governments yet We trade with them like they are our best friend?
Its bullshit.
We need to get in the base of problems not play silly games of gotcha.

They need to hack themselves a proper rap joint.

Little is known about Lulz Security, other than their apparent "hacktivist" motivation.

Sign me up :thumbsup

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