CIA website brought down by DDoS attack, LulzSec hackers claim responsibility

[Jack]

The CIA website at cia.gov was inaccessible a few hours ago, after having apparently fallen foul of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack by hackers.

Almost inevitably, fingers are pointing towards the notorious LulzSec hacktivist group who have made a name for themselves recently with a series of attacks against corporations, organisations and websites - sometimes forcing them offline, and on other occasions stealing personal information by exploiting security flaws.

A post to LulzSec's Twitter feed appears to confirm their participation in the attack:

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[Deleted member 178]

how to get big troubles for no real benefits ^^

 

[Jack]

how to get big troubles for no real benefits ^^

Agree....however LulzSec said that they hack the sites in order to show the security holes and most importantly .... for fun.
Seems like everyday their is a news about a hacked site.....

 

[Deleted member 178]

i understand the fun part, it was fun when i used a linux based boot cd to delete the winxp password of a friend ^^ i rather hacked a bank network and collect the thousands of millions of unused cents in every accounts, that is a real benefit. ^^

 

[Jack]

i rather hacked a bank network and collect the thousands of millions of unused cents in every accounts, that is a real benefit. ^^

I do think that a "bank network" has a lot more security that a simple website...Also their data is kept on multiple servers to prevent any kind of hacking.It's really hard to hack a "bank network and collect the thousands of millions" , LulzSec could DDoS a bank website(which is not a big deal) , but I don't think they will ever manage to access the customers/bank private data.
Also If you start hacking for the money....their will be a few people looking for you .. like CIA,FBI and others.

 

[iPanik]

If LulzSec suddenly goes quiet he/they has probably been picked up by secret airplanes.