CIA Web Site is Down, Hackers Purportedly Take Responsibility
- Posted on June 15, 2011 at 7:03pm by
Billy Hallowell
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The hackers (or hacktivists, depending on who you’re talking to) are at it again. According to a report published by Reuters, these online masterminds have once again broken into the Senate’s public web site.
Yesterday, The Blaze reported on Lulz Security’s first purported hack. While sources aren‘t yet 100 percent sure it was the same group responsible for today’s breach, officials are saying that no important data were accessed. Reuters reports:
This attack was similar in that hackers broke into the public site and downloaded information, said Martina Bradford, the deputy Senate sergeant at arms. The Sergeant at Arms Office provides security for the Senate.
“They’re getting nothing but the attacks continue,” said Bradford. “We’ve been able to stay ahead of the hackers and keep them out of the main Senate network.
But, this latest operation wasn’t limited to the Senate. The Next Web (TNW) is reporting that the CIA’s web site is also unresponsive. As of 7 p.m. Eastern time, The Blaze was also unable to access the site. TNW writes:
At this time, CIA.gov, the official site of the Central Intelligence Agency, is also unresponsive to browsing and we have reason to believe it has faced the same fate as the other prominent sites. LulzSec has seemed to claim responsibility for the CIA site going down with this Tweet…
You can find an image of the corroborating Tweet below:
CNET confirms that the CIA’s web site is offline and writes:
Apparently the group [Lulz Security] is bent on going after the spookiest of the spooky powers-that-be, but still has time for other side lulz, like taking down magnets.com and flooding the company’s phone lines. “…we called them and they wouldn’t tell us how magnets worked,” the group explained in a tweet announcing the hack earlier today.
Who will fall victim to their antics next? We shall see.
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Comments (88)
DMSNC
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:46pmFolks this is pure crap. Notice the ‘frequency’ of these reports? They are trying to push the “Net Neutraility” through. Soro‘s team in the EU is behind the ’real attacks’ and the rest are pure fantasy.
They are trying to scare you into allowing this trash law to pass – then Obama gets the “switch” – when he gets tired of hearing our voices, he’ll just turn it off. And guess how he’ll know? Think “filter”, just like China and North Korea do now. And when they hear something bad, they’ll be coming to get you – won’t be hard with the mandatory GPS in your phone (and the ones coming to your car real soon).
Sadly, the scare tatic will probably work – he‘ll shut down the internet on anyone he doesn’t like (or doesn’t LOVE him).
Report Post »dirthead1986
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:26pmhack away, good job!
Report Post »Aiser
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:15pmThis is so depressing. These “hackers” give a bad name to Hackers. In the Hacker community, hacking is about building cool programs and products for us all to enjoy. The opposite of them is known as a “*******” as they tear up programs/products with malicious intents by breaking through private security.
Report Post »TheGreyPiper
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 10:42pmWanna be hackers? Code crackers? Slackers wastin’ time with all the chatroom yakkers?
It’s all about the Pentiums, baby!
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:57pmAnd I see the makings of a “National Emergency” that obama got his singularly authority to take down the internet and declare Martial law (contingency op). That must be taken away OR he must be arrested for his crimes the day after the vote count. Actually the latter because he has a habit of ignoring the law, and his cabinet is polluted with his like minded.
Report Post »Skee
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:57pmMaybe we’ll find out the truth about our government spying on us.
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:54pmThis is a fundamental responsibility of the Federal Government. They aren’t even competent enough to handle 1s and 0s..
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 5:02amThat’s not how you spell Gandhi.
Report Post »quicker
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:53pm@ Walks in the dark1966, Any body that would hack into a goverment agency are putting all America in danger,I think that you have left your brain back in 66.To think that kids have the resourses to hack into one of the most secure webbs in the world is ludicrist.This is not a Hollywood movie.You need to back away from the left handed cigarettes.
Report Post »Matlor
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:47pmDon’t know about the internet control ; doesn’t Obama, Soros, Clinton et al need all of the social media to start the rebel springs throughout the world?
I think it’s a precursor to another terror attack, possibly on the computer grids. Computers is how everything functions, food, banking, utilities, transportation, etc.
They practiced before 9/11. A sobering thought.
Report Post »nomercy63
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:47pmPlease remind me again! How many billions and billions of dollars do you steal from the American people each year?
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:39pmChina…..again?
Report Post »Christian Kalgaard
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:47pm“China…again?” Amen
Report Post »Southern Rebel
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:29pmThis is how they start to take control over the internet. I don’t trust that this is what it seems or appears…but a means to an end..which is control over the net. Now the Net Security laws can be put in place because of this false flag BS.
Report Post »I don’t buy this crap for nothin!
Whostolemypig
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:21pmThis is a government operation, nothing but a prelude to seizing control of the internet. May as well keep the K-Y jelly handy, we’re getting it every way we turn.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:15pmI don‘t guess this same group could possibly hack the prez’s black`nblue berry could it? could we please hear/read conversations between the _____________ in the wh and his handlers? anybody up for exposing them all? Now, that’s a story I could go for….uh, for which I could go. : )
Report Post »tnturner
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 8:05pmGeez, it just a website. I highly doubt any confidential info was available through a public accessible server. At least I hope not.
Report Post »bitter clinger
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 7:46pmI agree,this story wouldnt be out there if it was not a tool.
Report Post »starman70
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 7:43pmAnother project of those inventive and creative Chinese, you know, the Chinese who Obama praises so loudly. You Know, The Chinese, who have taken way YOUR jobs. You know, those Chinese who are killing us economically and now are sabotaging us electronically. You know, the Chinese who are reverse engineering everything we develop.(How long will the stealth technology used in the helicopter used in the Bin Laden raid be a seceret?) (Our friends, the Pakstanis, allowed the Chinese access to our downed Chopper almost before the engine cooled down)
As one post earlier said, the government wants sites set up quickly and cheaply. When you do it that way, security goes by the wayside.
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 5:00amThe Chinese don’t care about PR sites full of information that the government wants us to read, and which aren’t connected to the internal government sites that contain the classified information the government needs to function. Their hackers will be going after our state secrets, and if they succeed, we’ll never know about it. And it’s not a false flag operation conducted buy our own government either. They know that we don’t care about their official PR sites. If they wanted to create panic so they could take control of the internet, they would take down commercial and media sites. That would attract much more attention without making them look incompetent. It’s probably just what it always turns out to be, geeky kids showing off their expertise.
Report Post »stinkybisquit
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 7:42pm(Munching a theater box of popcorn) I wonder if lulz will put tracking devices on the CIA’s cars.
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 7:42pmLULZ = 2, Washington = 0
Report Post »eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 7:39pmPerhaps taxpayers have simply been denied access.
Report Post »oriondma05
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 7:35pmHow long until Obummer and Eric Lloyd/FCC deem it necessary for the Government to take control of the internet?
Report Post »NOBALONEY
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 7:44pmcoming attraction
Report Post »chazman
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 7:25pmI can hardly wait to see how this pans out …
Report Post »krjones
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 7:24pmintentionally being done by our own government? We must Expand Security and take more of your liberties?
Report Post »tbl10
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 7:23pm@SAVINGTHEREPUBLIC
You are absolutely correct, I have no doubt that this is actually some black ops CIA group hacking these sites on purpose so that they can give the President the Internet Kill Switch that he so desperately wants. We will all pay the price for this. We will soon lose even more of our freedoms.
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 7:28pmOh no! The plan has been leaked! Next they’ll find the spy equipment in their closets!
Report Post »TheGreyPiper
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 10:39pmHa ha, those crazy government conspiracy people! Next thing they’ll be saying that 9/11 was an inside job by Dick Cheney!
Oh wait, leftard Demoncraps already say that.
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 1:17amlol
Report Post »Christian Kalgaard
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 7:09pmPathetic. Its probably a front though, perchance the Chinese are behind it, or perchance it is a false flag op.
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 7:57pmOr perhaps its just kids home for the summer who know how to hack and are just having some fun? Why does everything has to be a conspiracy theory? http://wp.me/pYLB7-13N
Report Post »Sparky101
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 10:55pmI don’t know, ask a leftie.
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 12:20amMy money’s on false flag. The vast majority still believes in their 9/11 con…and that operation went terribly awry.They thought we were sheep….now they know. It’s pure evil.
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 5:07am@WALKWITHME– Sounds like something a dozing cat might say.
Report Post »Revere2
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 7:07pmThis is what the WH tells up. It’s probably 10x worse.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 7:13pmWho will fall victim to their antics next?
Report Post »————
Hack the Weener
( he said it happened, now help him )
Opinionmonger
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 7:15pmMost websites doe have the consistency of swiss-cheese.
Incompetence of the morons designing the sites is the main culprit because it allways must be done quick and cheap.
quick, cheap, secure : CHOISE ONE!
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Report Post »SavingtheRepublic.com
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 7:17pm^____^____^
Im sure its a lot worse, probably data has been accessed too as they were “exiting” and shutting them down.
As of 4:14pm pst the CIA site is still down.
Folks this is really bad. These hacker groups in their crusade of “getting the truth out” or whatever are in fact putting all of us at risk in our ability to access the net. The attacks are nothing but fuel for the government to seize control of the networks. Dont dismiss this theory nothing is out of the question with this regime, DOJ etc. They have been countless reports of the gvt desire to reign in the net on content as well as giving the president a “kill switch”. Attacks like this make that “1984” “V for Vendetta” world more of a likely reality.
Report Post »Huguenot Descendant
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 7:25pmLuLz can take down the CIA security, that is pretty concerning. Nothing with servers is safe it seems. But what is their agenda other than to spread more fear which only fuels government control. Could this also be a plot to put more regulations on the internet?
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 7:29pm@ SavingtheRepublic.com
Report Post »I agree, seems to be something like that ‘ Project gunrunner ’ antic the Department of Jihad pulled off to take away our 2nd Amendment rights after everything else failed.
This regime never lets a crisis go to waste.
And if there is no crisis, they create one. They have been working hard to take away our 1st Amendment rights for too long .
4th Amendment doesn’t matter anymore anyway
Sinista MACE
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:23pmFalse flag cyber attack. Pretext to take over the internet and install killswitches or activate existing killswitches.
An attempt to shut down communications due to the alternative media surpassing the corporate-owned so-called “mainstream” media.
Desperation on behalf of the globalists.
Report Post »ebill
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 9:59pmWhy hack the site? Between Obama, the Clintons and the rest of the left they should get all the information the want and a night in the Lincoln Bedroom. Just offer Michelle an Ice Cream and an Barry a Double Dog with Fries.
Report Post »Okie from Muskogee
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 10:21pmIm not so sure on the false cyber attack but it is possible. I do see Government using this to control the Internet.
Hacker groups became more bold since Wiki-Leaks. I hope they expose the Fed to be honest.
Report Post »VanGrungy
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 10:21pmAmericanThinker was attacked too..
is the Blaze up to ‘reporting’?
Report Post »dmacfarlane
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 10:46pm7:45pm and cia.gov is still down. not good.
Report Post »Sparky101
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 10:54pmFind the perps. Take them out back and grease ‘em. Video it and post it. Repeat as often as necessary.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 10:56pm.
Report Post »Where is Janet when we need her? I mean the Freak’in CIA, the Freak‘in CIA they broke into the Freak’in CIA. Or did they……..
ManThong
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 11:32pmGee, what a coincidence.
This happens just when “the White House is making its third attempt to push through a historic federal cybersecurity law.“ that ”would establish a framework for distributing billions of dollars for new cybersecurity systems, while placing responsibility for securing cyberspace with the Department of Homeland Security.”
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2011-06-14-cybersecurity-threats-rise_n.htm
It’s a darn good thing they were already planning for this.
We need a bigger and more powerful DHS that will do to the Internet what it has done to air travel.
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on June 15, 2011 at 11:59pmThe CIA hacked itself.
They’re all hacks.
Al Qaeda works for them, they were involved with 9-11, and every false flag terror attack since 9-11 has been perpetrated by them.
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 5:28amThe CIA, yeah, could be a problem, but the Senate’s public website? Should there be secrets to steal on the Senate’s PUBLIC website? What am I missing here?
Report Post »bbdarthchris077
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 5:30amRead more news done by people just like you at http://www.yourfreedomnews.com
Report Post »sbeejustsaying
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 7:44amPolitics = Perception. I believe this is a false flag. Come on who in their right mind is going to break into the CIA.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 8:06amIf I was corrupt and wanted a particular regulation in my town passed, wouldn’t a good way to accomplish that be to have someone outside my town break the rules in my town to incite the town to pass regulations for what I want?
Report Post »Sinista MACE
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 9:38amThe glassmakers are breaking windows!
There’s your terrorists, folks!
THE CIA!
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on June 16, 2011 at 10:10amOkay, I’ll say it AGAIN…
Govt systems should be proprietary – both hardware and software – they should be incompatible with commercially available systems/software. They should operate via secured communications – leased lines, etc.
Report Post »Public websites about the govt should be separate and are fine to be web-connected and compatible.
Secure data should not be accessible from one system to the other. Not just firewalls, but NO CONNECTIONS. PERIOD.
Anything transferred from secured to unsecured would have to go through a government clearinghouse where it would be cleared and redacted prior to transfer to civilian systems/software.
Sure, it is easy and cheap to use commercially available systems and software, but, it leads to wikileaks issues, to hacking issues, to security nightmares.
IF we get to the point where we have single-photon generation security, or a comparable technology, I might reconsider. Until then, we’re playing with fire and we will KEEP getting burned!