{"id":441929,"date":"2011-06-16T01:00:05","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T01:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/16\/lulzsec-takes-down-cia-website\/"},"modified":"2011-06-16T01:00:05","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T01:00:05","slug":"lulzsec-takes-down-cia-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/16\/lulzsec-takes-down-cia-website\/","title":{"rendered":"LulzSec &#8216;takes down&#8217; CIA website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"97.6362112322\"><span><span>15 June 2011<\/span> <span>Last updated at<\/span> <span>21:00 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The hacker group Lulz Security has claimed it has brought down the public-facing website of the US Central Intelligence Agency.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged hack on CIA.gov occurred on the same day the group opened a telephone request line so its fans could suggest potential targets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/LulzSec\/status\/81115804636155906\">On its Twitter feed<\/a>, the group wrote: &#8220;Tango down &#8211; cia.gov &#8211; for the lulz&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The CIA website was inaccessible at times on Wednesday but the hack claim could not immediately be verified.<\/p>\n<p>It was unclear if the outage was due to LulzSec&#8217;s efforts or to the large number of internet users trying to check the site.<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;Denial of service&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>LulzSec has risen to prominence in recent months by attacking Sony, Nintendo, several US broadcasters, and the public-facing site of the US Senate.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday it claimed to have launched denial of service attacks on several websites as a result of opening its &#8220;request line&#8221;, although it gave no details.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-13787229#story_continues_2\">Continue reading the main story<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Lulz Security attacks<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>May 7: US X Factor contestant database<\/li>\n<li>May 10: Fox.com user passwords<\/li>\n<li>May 15: Database listing locations of UK cash machines<\/li>\n<li>May 23: Sonymusic Japan website<\/li>\n<li>May 30: US broadcaster PBS. Staff logon information<\/li>\n<li>June 2: Sonypictures.com user information<\/li>\n<li>June 3: Infragard website (FBI affiliated organisation)<\/li>\n<li>June 3: Nintendo.com<\/li>\n<li>June 10: Pron.com pornographic website<\/li>\n<li>June 13: Senate.gov &#8211; website of US Senate<\/li>\n<li>June 13: Bethesda software website<\/li>\n<li>June 14: EVE Online, League of Legends, The Escapist and others<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>The claim regarding the CIA.gov website emerged a few hours later. A CIA spokesman told the Associated Press the agency was &#8220;looking into&#8221; the report.<\/p>\n<p>LulzSec publicised the details of its telephone hotline on its Twitter feed.<\/p>\n<p>Callers to the US number are met with a recorded message, in a heavy French accent, by an individual calling himself Pierre Dubois.<\/p>\n<p>While the 614 area code appears to relate to the state of Ohio, it is unlikely that this is its real location.<\/p>\n<p>Lulz Security said it had used distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) against eight sites suggested by callers.<\/p>\n<p>It also claimed to have hit the websites of gaming magazine The Escapist, and multiplayer games EVE Online and League of Legends.<\/p>\n<p>DDoS attacks typically involve crashing a website by inundating it with requests from computers under the attacker&#8217;s control.<\/p>\n<p><span>Protest groups<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Little is known about Lulz Security, other than their apparent &#8220;hacktivist&#8221; motivation.<\/p>\n<p>The organisations and companies that it targets are often portrayed as having acted against the interests of citizens or consumers.<\/p>\n<p>Its high-profile attack on SonyPictures.com exposed the company&#8217;s ongoing inability to secure users&#8217; personal data, LulzSec claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Along with Anonymous, LulzSec has raised the profile of hacker groups as a potential threat to online services.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/technology-13787229\" title=\"LulzSec 'takes down' CIA website\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LulzSec &#8216;takes down&#8217; CIA website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 15 June 2011 Last updated at 21:00 ET The hacker group Lulz Security has claimed it has brought down the public-facing website of the US Central Intelligence Agency. 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