Problem?
Posted on 06/14/2011 6:03:09 AM PDT by Libloather
Hackers break into Senate computers
Diane Bartz and Thomas Ferraro
Reuters
7:28 a.m. EDT, June 14, 2011
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate's website was hacked over the weekend, leading to a review of all of its websites, in the latest embarrassing breach of security to hit a major U.S.-based institution.
The loosely organized hacker group Lulz Security broke into a public portion of the Senate website but did not reach behind a firewall into a more sensitive portion of the network, Martina Bradford, the deputy Senate sergeant at arms, said on Monday.
Despite the breach, the Sergeant at Arms Office, which provides security for the Senate, said that the breach had not compromised any individual senator's information.
Lulz announced the hack on Monday.
"We were responding to their allegations. Basically what we're saying that the server they got into is for public access and is in the public side," said Bradford.
Lulz Security, who have hacked into Sony's website and the Public Broadcasting System, posted online a list of files that appear not to be sensitive but indicate the hackers had been into the Senate's computer network.
"We don't like the U.S. government very much," Lulz Security said at the top of their release. "This is a small, just-for-kicks release of some internal data from Senate.gov - is this an act of war, gentlemen? Problem?"
The comment refers to reports that the military had decided that it could respond to cyber attacks from foreign countries with traditional military force.
Senate staffers were alerted about the breach late Monday.
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Lucky the little pervert isn't one.
Somebody stole the budget they haven’t passed!
zero has 18 months yet to do lots of damage.
True.
And I believe that Janet Napolitano at Homeland Security has announced that cyber attacks will be treated as basically breaking and entering. Call the cops. They'll fill out a report for you.
Too bad this didn't happen when they were shoving obamacare down our throats.
no hire Weenie's private investigator...???...oh wait, there never was an investigator
They did it for the lulz.
These are the people that hacked the Playstation Network that caused the online service to be down for over a month. There are millions of 16 to 30 year olds worldwide pi$$ed at this group. We just need to apply that anger in a reverse hack.
Headline should read, “Retards give US Government another reason to install internet killswitch.”
An Act Of War?
You have to be kidding...
I would like to think that we have spooks that can make specific people, just disappear.
Problem?
These are the people that hacked the Playstation Network that caused the online service to be down for over a month. There are millions of 16 to 30 year olds worldwide pi$$ed at this group. We just need to apply that anger in a reverse hack.
That would be letting a good crisis go to waste. Identity the perps and through water boarding or whatever seems motivational, "request" that these perps hack Barry's Blackberry and send Hussein some pro-America messages rather than the usual seditious advice he streams in now.
Liberals are retarded and do whatever the mob tells them to do, hack their files and redact the usual treason and replace it with America friendly language. It won't have the same feel, and Americans won't project their usual outrage, and for that reason the criminals in government might be suspect, but being too stupid and lazy to verify will blindly pass along what we tell them.
If hackers want to go Wikileaks on the Senate they need to go where the money, or in this case dirt, is. Get and release the secret records of the closed Senate session which voted 100-0 to change the impeachment trial rules so Clinton could be let off in a relatively painless farce.
They hit Y-12 Sunday, and Oak Ridge National Lab in April.
So what will the hackers learn? Nothing, that we already know, that the US Senate is nothing more than a club of wealthy overpaid, incompetent boobs.
They broke into the propaganda side of the operation. War? More like graphite.
The more likely response is a paramilitary raid like that at Ruby Ridge or Elian Gonzales. I think if you 'touch a nerve' like that you're going to get a disproportionate response.
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