CIA Website Hacked, Struggles To Recover

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/attacks/232600729

By Mathew J. Schwartz
InformationWeek
February 13, 2012

An Anonymous-related Twitter channel claimed Friday that the group had 
successfully taken down the CIA's public-facing website.

The CIA website reportedly remained inaccessible several hours after the 
attack, then appeared to be offline intermittently for the rest of the 
weekend, as well as on Monday, in the face of what appeared to be a 
distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Anonymous had previously 
been making a habit of targeting the FBI on Fridays.

The CIA has acknowledged that it's been having website issues, but 
hasn't publicly commented on the cause. Interestingly, it's not clear if 
Anonymous was indeed responsible. "We'd remind media that if we report a 
hack or ddos attack, it doesn't necessarily mean we did it...FYI," 
according to a tweet from YourAnonNews, which is a reliable source of 
information about Anonymous activities.

Saturday, hackers announced via Pastebin--with a shout-out to Anonymous 
and AntiSec--that they'd hacked the U.S. Census Bureau, and they listed 
the names of stolen database tables. The same day, the website of 
Interpol was also knocked offline, although the attack wasn't the work 
of Anonymous. Instead, via a Pastebin post, a group known as Black 
Tuesday (tagline: "We'r revolution of your mind!) claimed credit.

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