LulzSec Hackers Take Down CIA Website

Published on 06-16-2011 02:41 PM

After recently attacking a number of gaming websites, the hacker group known as LulzSec has used a DDoS attack to take down the CIA’s website, www.cia.gov.

The site is now back online, but it had been inaccessible for several hours.

LulzSec got the public’s attention by hacking Sony’s servers, capturing hundreds of thousands of personal user records, which is — by the group’s own admission — its biggest attack. The same group also claims to have attacked the servers of Nintendo and the U.S. Senate.

LulzSec’s tactics include fairly simple DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks that flood web servers with requests and take them down for a period of time, hacks of people’s personal accounts and actually breaking into servers of various companies and organizations. The group’s motives range from supposedly hacktivistones to pure “fun” — and it’s getting harder to tell where one ends and the other begins.

One thing separates LulzSec from many other similar groups, however: Its members are actively communicating with users, and they love the attention. And with a high-profile site being attacked almost daily in the past several weeks, we’re sure we’ll hear more about LulzSec in future.

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6 Comments

godofhell - 06-16-2011, 02:58 PM
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Hacking Sony is one thing, getting on CIAs bad side is totally different

iLOVENZB - 06-16-2011, 04:14 PM
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What an appropriate title: http://www.itworld.com/security/1749...activism-wrong

Wish these 4chan kids would just fuck off! It's wankers like LulzSec and Anon who just ruin it for everyone. Once were the days where Hactivism was seen in a positive light with the average dumb user. Now look at them, DDoSing anything that makes their dicks shrivel. Probably shouldn't be so harsh on Anon because they had some motive to annoy PayPal back in the Assange days.

hersi - 06-16-2011, 07:18 PM
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I believe they took down their more threatening tweets pointed at the individual (th3j35t3r), and it's a full-out war between the two. https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r He's been exposing their antics, and it's just a matter of time now. The internet is a crazy place.

Cabalo - 06-16-2011, 07:35 PM
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Quite interesting. Should be the end of lulzsec antics as soon as the feds lay their sight on this.

darkstate01 - 06-17-2011, 01:01 AM
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The more these dimwits keep messing with the powers that be,the more reasons the government will get to make up yet another act to tighten the grip on the net to shut it down. The government are waiting patiently to make an excuse to make the net a closed place, I can see if this continues, we will all need a net passport, minus the perverts TSA. It wouldn't surprise me if they were the government actually doing the DDOSing to move the new act along to speed things along

icerush - 06-17-2011, 03:02 AM
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Originally Posted by darkstate01

The more these dimwits keep messing with the powers that be,the more reasons the government will get to make up yet another act to tighten the grip on the net to shut it down. The government are waiting patiently to make an excuse to make the net a closed place, I can see if this continues, we will all need a net passport, minus the perverts TSA. It wouldn't surprise me if they were the government actually doing the DDOSing to move the new act along to speed things along

wow. seems a bit paranoid. i think its more likely that the CIA will get better funding for its cyber warfare dept, which is good news for american citizens. stopping a ddos attack doesn't require a full net lockdown. tracking down the culprits and cutting the heads off the zombies can be done without lifting all the privacy restrictions. any unconstitutional invasion of privacy would eventually be nailed by the judiciary branch. god bless america