LulzSec Take Down The CIA Website

[GameOver]

The public website of the Central Intelligence Agency went down on Wednesday evening as the hacker group Lulz Security said it had launched an attack.

Lulz Security has claimed responsibility for recent attacks on the Senate, Sony Corp, News Corp and the U.S. Public Broadcasting System television network.

The CIA site initially could not be accessed from New York to San Francisco, and Bangalore to London. Later in the evening service was sporadic.

"We are looking into these reports," a CIA spokeswoman said.

Lulz Security has defaced websites, posted personal information about customers and site administrators, and disclosed the network configurations of some sites.

Security analysts have downplayed the significance of these attacks, saying the hackers are just looking to show off and get as much attention as possible.

In the case of the CIA attack, hackers would not be able to access sensitive data by breaking into the agency's public website, said Jeffrey Carr, author of the book Inside Cyber Warfare: Mapping the Cyber Underworld.

"All they're doing is saying 'Look how good we are,'" Carr said. "These guys are literally in it for embarrassment, to say 'your security is crap.'"

Lulz only made claims that it attacked www.cia.gov, and there was no evidence on Wednesday evening that sensitive data in the agency's internal computer network had been compromised.

There also were no apparent links to more serious network security breaches recently at the International Monetary Fund and Lockheed Martin Corp. Lulz Security has not been linked to those incidents.

Lulz, whose members are strewn across the globe, announced the attack shortly before 6 p.m. East Coast time.

"Tango down," the group Tweeted, pointing to www.cia.gov.

Although the group, also known as Lulz Boat, fashions itself more as pranksters and activists than people with sinister intent, its members have been accused of breaking the law and are wanted by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies.

Lulz broke into a public website of the Senate over the weekend and released data stolen from the legislative body's computer servers

Scary times

 

[zmargo]

Hehehe, I got onto 2 peoples email accounts from Lulzsec's password releases. One of them even had credit card numbers and the address of the owners!

But I was only looking for a Facebook account that I could mess with, so I sent an email telling them to change their password before somebody else came along and tried to take money from them.

 

[vidarr]

They may only be doing it to show off, but they are making people aware of the threat of internet crime is very real and possible by someone with enough ingenuity.

Information warfare.. in the hands of common citizens. Very scary indeed.

 

[hotatlboi]

This particular report is overblown in most of the media reports I've seen.

They didn't "hack" or penetrate the CIA like some have reported, they just did a DDOS attack that took down their public facing site.

That shit is old and has been done a thousand times.

They're just trolling for the lulz or whatever.

 

[Corny]

this probably was just an admin of the irc server that they used. mass media fail .. once again.

 

[GameOver]

Looks like LulzSec are using him as a scapegoat because the net closed in.

 

[GameOver]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jun/24/lulzsec-irc-leak-the-full-record

LOL i love the last post 'MORE CAKE'!

 

[JB3]

this probably was just an admin of the irc server that they used. mass media fail .. once again.

Or not. Lulzsec gave up, more likely than not because they know they're on the verge of getting nailed. Hackers that don't like them have already outed the names and addresses of Lulzsec members AND publicly called out their 'hacking' as being nothing more than elementary school-grade parlor tricks.

Its not going to be long before we see every single one of their members' mug shots plastered all over the web and news.

 

[Corny]

Or not. Lulzsec gave up, more likely than not because they know they're on the verge of getting nailed. Hackers that don't like them have already outed the names and addresses of Lulzsec members AND publicly called out their 'hacking' as being nothing more than elementary school-grade parlor tricks.

and this has what to do with the irc server admin? yeah they probably gave up because they got that backlash. but that still has nothing to do with the other incident.

that their "hacking" was nothing surpreme was pretty clear from the start though. at least to people who know the matter. mass-media, as usual, has no clue. but anybody who has just a bit of hacking experience could quickly see what they were doing. the thing is that they were doing it. and on a large scale. and that so many companies still have these ridiculous and basic flaws in their software.

they did the damage. but if any of my personal data would be affected by their work I would be equally angry at the company that doesn't protect it at all.

 

[JB3]

and this has what to do with the irc server admin? yeah they probably gave up because they got that backlash. but that still has nothing to do with the other incident.

that their "hacking" was nothing surpreme was pretty clear from the start though. at least to people who know the matter. mass-media, as usual, has no clue. but anybody who has just a bit of hacking experience could quickly see what they were doing. the thing is that they were doing it. and on a large scale. and that so many companies still have these ridiculous and basic flaws in their software.

they did the damage. but if any of my personal data would be affected by their work I would be equally angry at the company that doesn't protect it at all.

I would be more angry that there are people out there that think this is all a game. Should those companies have better security? Yeah, they should.

Should every member of lulzsec get nailed to the wall by the FBI and sent to prison for life? Hell yeah they should.

 

[GTNEricLassard]

Im not sure but since Sonys PSN hack almost everybody gets hacked. I think this also happened in the past to a lot of Companies, but they never announced it because it wasnt worth it. Hacks happen all the Time.