Posted on 06/16/2011 6:54:35 PM PDT by Freedom56v2
CNN) -- They've breached or busted the websites of the CIA, PBS and the U.S. Senate, and launched at least part of an extended attack on Sony, whose PlayStation Network was brought to a grinding halt for the better part of a month.
And, to hear them tell it, it's all for a laugh.
Meet Lulz Security, or LulzSec, the gleeful and secretive band of hackers who appear to be responsible for a string of high-profile and sometimes embarrassing Internet attacks.
Their most recent strike, and arguably the most ambitious, was a distributed denial-of-service attack Wednesday that shut down the Central Intelligence Agency's website for a couple of hours.
A DDoS attack is fairly easy with the right software. But the group has also hacked into sites ranging from Sony Pictures to porn sites, often publishing the passwords and other personal information they find.
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I am surprised the CIA would be able t be hacked...
Hackers attacking electronic posters... bfd.
I’m concerned that FedGov will overreact and come down hard on internet freedoms, in time for the election.
CIA, PBS, The Senate, Porn Sites? Just whose side are these hacker guys on anyways:)
The CIA wasn’t ‘hacked’, it was subject to a DDOS. They essentially pounded the CIA’s public facing webserver with thousands upon thousands of requests to try to overload the server and or networking equipment. At minimum a DDOS can make a website slow down as the webserver has to process thousands of ‘attack’ requests while handling real ones.
That is their way. They know no other.
Punish the 99.999999% for the crimes of a few.
We see it all the time.
Thank you for the clarification. :)
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