Lulz Security, the group behind a score of recent high profile hacks, has claimed responsibility for an attack which took the CIA’s website down whilst releasing internal data purportedly stolen from the US Senate’s site.
The group has been soliciting suggestions for targets to use its denial of service botnet on, and it seems the CIA’s number came up:
Tango down – cia.gov – for the lulz.
Reportedly the site was inaccessible for a time, but was soon restored to full functionality.
It appears the hack only affected the public website rather than any of the agency’s internal networks, making embarrassing rather than damaging.
Regarding their senatorial hack, they have released data claimed to come from the Senate’s website:
We don’t like the US government very much. Their boats are weak, their lulz are low, and their sites aren’t very secure.
In an attempt to help them fix their issues, we’ve decided to donate additional lulz in the form of owning them some more!This is a small, just-for-kicks release of some internal data from Senate.gov – is this an act of war, gentlemen? Problem?
However, the data appears to be from a public-facing webserver rather than the Senate’s internal networks, so damage is probably limited. The site appears to be functioning normally.
In addition to the CIA, the group has also recently hacked (or merely DDoSed) a gaming site which published articles critical of them, EVE Online’s servers (no data was lost), League of Legends’ servers (no data lost), the Minecraft servers (again with no loss of data), and a random IT security company (“apparently they sell monitoring software to the government or some shit like that”).
Having gone from vaguely popular acts of support for pirates to random acts of opportunistic vandalism, even such support as they had amongst the more base strata of Internet society seems to be rapidly evaporating – not that this has brought them any closer to apprehension, although with their targeting of the CIA this prospect may have become a much more pressing concern for US authorities.
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They're really starting to bite off more than they can chew here. For all its bullshit, the US is no fucking joke. They are really, REALLY asking for it.
First.
for that you get a cookie, go ask your mom to claim your prize.
Numbers?!
Wonder how the CIA will react to this(numbers I mean?)
But the if it's the public website weren't it so much as unguarded than hacked I mean why store valuable data on a public server(for the CIA at least). It's more "we weren't trying" than "we were hacked!" Am I wrong or am I wrong
If I have properly read through the piss poor grammar I think you are asking if it really matters. No it does not. They have hacked individual offices' sites. It's almost like the geocities of the government. They allow individuals to make their own little minisites and it's up to them to protect it properly I assume.
The more valuable data is presumably kept in the internal servers.
Thumbs up to China!
In the event of an actual attack, the appearance of a successful attack may cause snowball effect.
Seeing as how the US govt has now declared cyberattacks valid reason for declaring war I dont think that's something that you really want to say.
We're heading into some dark times technologically. Soon enough there will just be big internet bombs being lobbed over borders and then it's only a little while before the nukes fly....x.x
I heard that 4chan got hacked too!? Is that true ?
I don't know aabout hacked but they get DDoSed all the time.
Maybe but this means war!!!!
"Lulzsec Hackers Go to War with 4chan"
ANONYMOUS WINS ! ! V for vendetta !
V at least is extremely competent in his one man crusade against Norsefire. He actually succeeded in taking down the government and plunge Britain into anarchy.
These hackers couldn't even hack a site and get something actually worthwhile.
For the lulz
This is actually interesting. This is what original Anons would have done. As in, before someone decided to call it some kind of movement to fight for something. But DDOSing is the mark of teenagers usually... but if the CIA doesn't catch them, I'd call that credentials to put them as more than teenagers. Nothing will ever match Habbo Hotel's days of course... but I thank these fools for making me feel for a brief moment that someone still lives from the times when 'it' was good ('it' was never good...)
The movement designated Anonymous currently doesn't do pointless stuff like this. I still am sure they have nothing to do with the credit card and personal information hacks. Just not their style. Even if someone did it who claims they were Anonymous, by default, the fact they did it makes them non Anonymous by way of violating the concept of Anonymous.
As for these /b/tards... go for it. 4 teh lulz. I shall dawn my monocle in their honor.
Go back to 4chan.
or warcraft
The CIA blue cube will thank them for pointing out the shortcomings of their public (giggle...) website.
They won't feel a thing... probably be sleeping at the time...
one more point goes to the hackers!!
deduce 50 points from the victims!!
deduct 100 points for spelling
DDoS attacks n hacking are 2 rather different stuff
DoSing a site is to hacking what a teenage vandal messing up a buss stop is to James Bond.
Which one are you overestimating - the teens or the hackers?
Also, a raw DDoS-attack isn't really a hack, but it can be used as one step of a complete hack and thus it has its merits.
Still sums up to calling their "614-LULZSEC" number and leaving a "suggestion" of whatever game/website is pissing you off, or would be funny to be DDoS'ed by them.
Artefact might want to lay off those anime lists/referrals to figurines for a while I guess, lol..
These hackers are fags.
possibly... they're surely angry about something to declare war on ..? pretty much everyone? Someone left a turd in their punchbowl... oh wait. its for the "lulz". Must be code for "because my uncle touched my cornhole"
Declare a war against everyone?
The United States of America, is not everyone...
It's basically "everyone" in a miniature model, soon the world will become a mix pot like that, son.
First off: The CIA had a public site? The hell would they use that for? "We at some point in history gave some confidential stuffs to unnamed person(s)"
No, they touched the Government. These guys are amateurs, for a smart hacker wouldn't consider such a thing. Not to say they couldn't do it, but the threat such a task presents is phenomenal. I'm sure they'll find themselves on wikileaks soon xD
The best criminals/hackers in the world would be the one who remain unknown.
And the least known, most arrogant, and undeniably stupid, would broadcast such a thing as attacking a government site for teh lulz. It's been seen before. I enjoy the sheer idiocy of it, because it entertains me for a moment. But if these teenagers wish to learn their lesson the hard way, then I call that Darwinism. Or prison rape. Maybe both.
Go, Zero Cool! Show them who's B& from the internet until they're 35!
My guess? These girls are wanting to land a high-profile government hacking job. This is a résumé.
If it's a resume, they will try harder, trying to reach the non-public sites.
if its connected to the internet, nothing is that hard to crack into. however its all about getting the data either really fast, or not getting caught at all, and you don't have much time to figure out which you want to go for.
you also don't have the luxury of sticking around for long to find out if this is a honey pot server.
I sure hope anonymous kicks the man in the ballz.
When EVE's servers went down, i somehow KNEW it was those hackers XD
Messing with game companies? Worst case = you get caught and are thrown in jail for a few years.
Messing with politicians and the CIA? Worst case = you 'disappear' and the hacking spree stops and is forgotten
The Sony hack was impressive.. this was just plain dumb, considering the risk vs the little they actually accomplished. Best stick to targets which do not bite back, especially not an Agency known for conducting covert operations, counter espionage, and assassinations
Who said that these guys are teenagers?
Did you know most of the talented criminals will be offered a job in the sector, on certain conditions of course.
I guess they only want to prove that they can do it.
"You can do anything as long as you believe in it!"
Yes... They can prove they can do it. And afterwards they'll have nothing left to prove...
Hacking is not a crime, as long as no harm come to personal issues or maybe launching nuke for fun as soon as you take over the american nuke power plant control. erm... this is not a suggestion. Just speaking out loud
OBVIOUSLY they're teenagers.
It takes a certain level of intellectual maturity to be capable of hacking something,
but a certain level of /immaturity/ just to do it for shits.
No adult is lame enough to use useful skills for a useless purpose.
Additionally, note the excessive usage of internet slang.
Only non-adults are that lacking in class.
Haha, you lack vision. This is depends entirely on the criminal's objectives, for one.
In this case, the gov doesn't seem to know the identities of the "hackers". As long as they aren't caught, judging them is more "stupid" than them doing such pointless(?) DDoS-attacks.
do you really think i'll be that hard for the cia to find out who those guys are?
inb4 ololol behind 7 prixies & computer science III
and ddosing a cia website definitely IS a stupid thing to do because it doesn't accomplish anything but put you at great risk.
pretty much like trying to kick mike tyson in the balls.
you might think for a short moment
>hey, i'm so brave! look at me world! look at me being aweso-
and then everything suddenly went black and as you wake up in hospital and realize you're paralyzed now youstart ask yourself if that was really worth it.
tldr;
little kids attentionwhoring because they probably get bullied at school.
i truly pity them
CIA couldn't find lone old man that was responsible for 9/11 for how many years? Sole fact that he was able to launch such attack should suggest you their level of skill in defending your country. They are as incompetent as any government agency. Their 'competence' is result of you watching too many scifi movies.
The 'old man' went out of his way to not have any computers or phones anywhere near him, since both have government tracers all over them. Hackers, by definition, sorta have to use one of those to do anything.
Saying it's "definitely stupid" is assuming that someone far more "intelligent" than you can't exist, making stupid-looking moves but instead having a complicated plan of some sort. You're cutting off the possibilities in favor of the most probable option, which isn't the most logical way to think.
There's always a better hacker, engineer, w/e that can hack, be noticed and yet stay unidentified. Don't deny that possibility in this case either until we know for SURE they've been found.
Initiating a DDoS attack doesn't qualify them as hackers. A bored twelve year old could pull that off. It's the internet equivalent of graffiti.
More like the equivalent of finding the wall to paing with graffiti...
Most people here know that much. What people don't seem to know is how the real hackers work---that is, aside from planting troyans and viruses on the target computers.
Knowing governmental sites.
A) History of the organization and any predecessors.
B) Outline of what they do.
C) Job offers, although from what I hear the boys in Langley like to do the recruiting on their own. So it's more of a: we'll call you for an interview, rather than you submitting a resume to them and then getting a call if you seem interesting.
"First off: The CIA had a public site? The hell would they use that for?"
Ever hear of the CIA World Factbook? It's like an atlas of world governments. Has real information. You might want to check it out sometime.
"CIA World Facebook" :p
Either they are really stupid (high possibility) or they're that smart that even if they leak who they are the government can't touch them.
I'm going for the latter.... if they are based in countries overseas, I doubt much will happen to them.
Extra-judicial sanctions, you say? Yeah right.... if we didn't try that with Assange, we won't try that with these guys.
Assange was/is too high profile, the very fact that these guys are anonymous works against them in this case.
Who do you think will be easier to ice without creating a lot of brouhaha in the press? A celeb or some random Joe Schmoe from off the street?
Plus the whole "over seas" thing isn't going to stop the CIA. Their whole job is working "over seas". FBI handles internal affairs and CIA does external and I imagine that taking these people down would have no negative consequences whatsoever. America has already found Osama, I think they can find a bunch of assholes on the internet who announce all of their attacks and then gloat about it.