CIA being attacked!

danniemcq

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/technology/8261774/hackers-claim-hit-on-cia-website

CIA website has apparently been knocked out of commission by hackers.

The US spy agency's cia.gov website stopped responding and members of a Lulz Security hacker group claimed credit in a message at microblogging service Twitter.

Attempts to reach the website were met with a message saying the web page was not available.

"Tango down - cia.gov," the Twitter message read.

"For the lulz."

A CIA spokesman was not available for comment.

site still down for me

Dman001

Geeks will soon take over the world with all these hacks....

orourkeda

If the CIA are stupid enough to let their system be hacked there should be sackings

danniemcq

Dman001 wrote: »

Geeks will soon take over the world with all these hacks....

as it says in the bible

The geek will inherit the earth

Captain Chaos

All these false flag hackings setting the stage for the war on hackers now that Bin Bag is dead. Extra internet security tax all round.:pac:

aligator_am

CIA being attacked eh? I suppose it makes a change from them instigating attacks on others

maglite

Old news, site back up,

I feel sorry for the kids that were part of this attack, those just smart enough to know what a DDoS is but not smart enough to hide from the CIA.

My name is URL

4chan is down too

KeithM89_old

If boards goes down, im dusting off the shotgun....

D-Generate

I know these kids think it's fun and cool and for the lulz but seriously they are ****ing idiots and I hope the US starts dumping them in some nice federal prisons soon enough.
Hacking a website to show a security weakness is okayish but when you start stealing user's information and posting up user's details then its a pretty dickish move.

Profiler

"De tuck uur Internets" :mad:

Amhran Nua

Dman001 wrote: »

Geeks will soon take over the world with all these hacks....

a) Geek is an insulting word for an intelligent person usually applied by Americans and b) is it just me or is this whole "we use l33t sp33k and learned how to do an SQL injection on wikipedia and think 4chan is like fite club wot rebels we are" vibe is getting pretty weak?

mick.m

They're not really helping the case against internet censorship in the future I reckon. Also, as soon as the likes of CIA are involved, the guys behind it don't stand a chance of evading the feds. So pointless.

aligator_am

KeithM89 wrote: »

If boards goes down, im dusting off the shotgun....

Take it easy there Cobain :P

Agent J

They took down Minecraft and EvE Online.

They might be safer if the CIA gets to them first.....

Plautus

My name is URL wrote: »

4chan is down too

That's no loss. No. But the bastards took down EVE online!

aligator_am

Amhran Nua wrote: »

a) Geek is an insulting word for an intelligent person usually applied by Americans and b) is it just me or is this whole "we use l33t sp33k and learned how to do an SQL injection on wikipedia and think 4chan is like fite club wot rebels we are" vibe is getting pretty weak?

The Anonymous group has a fairly large core group of members from what I understand, there have been a rake of hangers on, several of these have been nabbed recently but I think the core remains.

I think the shams that have been rounded up are the l33t sp33k squad.

dlofnep

Can people please stop calling DoS/DDoS attacks 'hacking'. It's the most intellectually void form of cyber attack there is. Defending against such attacks isn't straight forward, as it's difficult to determine what traffic is legitimate and what isn't. From the list of attacks I've seen from Lulzsec, they have been pretty trivial, and nothing out of the ordinary. One of their attacks on the Sony website was already well known for months - and anyone with basic SQLi knowledge would have been able to do the same.

Amhran Nua

aligator_am wrote: »

The Anonymous group has a fairly large core group of members from what I understand

Good luck to them, they are going to need it after getting lucky with a Central Intelligence Agency site. Which isn't to say that they took on the might of the US government intelligence community and won, rather that this particular site had a crappy admin who didn't encrypt password fields in his tables. Now the core group has moved from insignificant pranksters to Leon Panetta's "challenge accepted".

Saviola

They also released the contact info of every x-factor US contestant....

bc dub

The CIA did this. It's the start of a clampdown on Internet freedom.

seanbmc

4chan not working either.

Corkfeen

I did laugh when I was reading this article article about them though. They apparently setup a hotline. The voicemail reads.

We are not available right now as we are busy raping your Internet. Leave a message and we will get back to you whenever we feel like.

http://www.inquisitr.com/113803/4chan-lulzsec-bicker-over-gaming-targets/

Amhran Nua

seanbmc wrote: »

4chan not working either.

Guess teh lulz are on them.

aligator_am

Captain Chaos wrote: »

All these false flag hackings setting the stage for the war on hackers now that Bin Bag is dead. Extra internet security tax all round.:pac:

Nah, it seems the Obama administration have proposed (not sure if it passed or not) an internet kill switch bill.

Am heading to bed now but if I can find the link(s) tomorrow then I'll post them in this thread.

TheZohanS

Amhran Nua wrote: »

Guess teh lulz are on them.

Lulz and Anonymous are separate groups. lulz insulted Anon and /b/ it's going to get nasty.

Trevor451

I find it funny what they are doing. Once they do not bring steam down I will be happy

Amhran Nua

TheZohan wrote: »

Lulz and Anonymous are separate groups. lulz insulted Anon and /b/ it's going to get nasty.

I doubt somehow that the CIA is going to bother differentiating. Let's just say that American Dad wasn't kidding, collateral damage is a bonus to these people.

General General

KeithM89 wrote: »

If boards goes down, im dusting off the shotgun....

Pfff... Biggins knows where we can get a rocket launcher.

Son Of A Vidic

They really are turning into an ultimate troll grouping, with all this pissing on everyone's doorstep. Fcukwits will pay for messing with the CIA though.

cocoshovel

TheZohan wrote: »

Lulz and Anonymous are separate groups. lulz insulted Anon and /b/ it's going to get nasty.

Anonymous isn't a group. Also, /b/ won't do sh*t. The only people that still browse /b/ are brain dead 15 year olds that hardly have a notion how to work a computer, yet they all think they're part of some huge secret hacking club.

Crann na Beatha

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General General

Veles wrote: »

CIA at their finest..
False flag anyone?

No thanks, but I'll take an Almond Magnum & bottle of Coke.

Do you sell beachballs?

Saviola

cocoshovel wrote: »

Anonymous isn't a group. Also, /b/ won't do sh*t. The only people that still browse /b/ are brain dead 15 year olds that hardly have a notion how to work a computer, yet they all think they're part of some huge secret hacking club.

Yeah /b/ is nothing these days, they used to have some power behind them but its useless now. Lulzsec are definitely out to do some damage though and they dont really care who they target.

loike

maglite wrote: »

Old news, site back up,

I feel sorry for the kids that were part of this attack, those just smart enough to know what a DDoS is but not smart enough to hide from the CIA.

These "kids" have taken Sonys PS3 network offline, and have taken many other online multiplayer servers offline such as EVE and Minecraft. They've also released info on UK ATM transactions and released a list and information about everyone who has applied for fox's xfactor

Corkfeen

Saviola wrote: »

Yeah /b/ is nothing these days, they used to have some power behind them but its useless now. Lulzsec are definitely out to do some damage though and they dont really care who they target.

Ohh yes, serious damage by releasing the X-factor Contestants info onto the internet. But lets be realistic, their attack on the CIA, seems to be nothing more than a DDos attack, they're fools who are get into far deeper water than they should be in. And most of us will probably suffer for it instead, due to restrictions of some variety being put on the net.

Mark200

aligator_am wrote: »

Nah, it seems the Obama administration have proposed (not sure if it passed or not) an internet kill switch bill.

Am heading to bed now but if I can find the link(s) tomorrow then I'll post them in this thread.

I'm quite confident that that's not true

Amhran Nua

loike wrote: »

These "kids" have taken Sonys PS3 network offline, and have taken many other online multiplayer servers offline such as EVE and Minecraft

And look whose toes they just stepped on...

The published evidence indicates that Project MKULTRA involved the use of many methodologies to manipulate individual mental states and alter brain functions, including the surreptitious administration of drugs and other chemicals, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, and verbal and sexual abuse.

The Deputy Director of the CIA revealed that over thirty universities and institutions were involved in an "extensive testing and experimentation" program which included covert drug tests on unwitting citizens "at all social levels, high and low, native Americans and foreign." Several of these tests involved the administration of LSD to "unwitting subjects in social situations." At least one death, that of Dr. Olson, resulted from these activities. The Agency itself acknowledged that these tests made little scientific sense. The agents doing the monitoring were not qualified scientific observers.

Because most MKULTRA records were deliberately destroyed in 1973 by order of then CIA director Richard Helms, it has been difficult, if not impossible, for investigators to gain a complete understanding of the more than 150 individually funded research sub-projects sponsored by MKULTRA and related CIA programs.

Given the CIA's purposeful destruction of most records, its failure to follow informed consent protocols with thousands of participants, the uncontrolled nature of the experiments, and the lack of follow-up data, the full impact of MKULTRA experiments, including deaths, will never be known.

A considerable amount of credible circumstantial evidence suggests that Theodore Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, participated in CIA-sponsored MKULTRA experiments conducted at Harvard University from the fall of 1959 through the spring of 1962.

And thats before you get into the drug running...

-Kenny-

Agent J wrote: »

They took down Minecraft and EvE Online.

They might be safer if the CIA gets to them first.....

This is a sick world we live in with sick people !

Duggy747

Wait till they hit Facebook................for the lulz.

Just a matter of time before all these new laws and bills start getting passed... Why is it hackers used to be quiet and now they scream at the top of their voices over shltty DDOS attacks.?

beans

Mark200 wrote: »

I'm quite confident that that's not true

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20029282-281.html

A controversial bill handing President Obama power over privately owned computer systems during a "national cyberemergency," and prohibiting any review by the court system, will return this year.

Angeles

Its just skynet tricking those military dudes into getting full power!

Saviola

Its about to happen again....

What is?

The CIA seems like a really silly group to target. They're just asking for a shitstorm.

RebelSniper

orourkeda wrote: »

If the CIA are stupid enough to let their system be hacked there should be sackings

Sackings over Hackings... amazing