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Technology news- Anonymous avenge to drive CIA website offline
On this Friday evening, the CIA site suffered a continuous offline situation for quite some time but was recovered shortly. This attack was executed through the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) process of attacks used by Anonymous. According to this act many computers are concurrently made to visit a website to the extent that its servers get congested and clogged. This January, it was Anonymous who attempted and was successful in temporarily knocking off the websites of the US DOJ and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to avenge the shutdown of the Megaupload file sharing website. The malicious group also takes pride in claiming that it had compromised and momentarily hacked website of the Mexican chamber of mines Camimex on Friday. This was an outrageous outcome against the mining industry which is exploiting the miners and targeting the lands of the Wixarika. This outcome shaped in exposing the e-mails of Camimex. As admittance towards executing the CIA offline issues, the Anonymous group stated, the following unabridged statement: “Citizens of the World, We are Anonymous. We are people. Just like you. We are not robots, we are not inhuman. We are human. We are everyone. That being said, We also have the capacity for the same errors of judgement and mistakes that everyone does. We are committed to improving the lives of everyone on this planet by whatever means we deem necessary, because we feel that if we have to take action to righta wrong, its gone on entirely too long. If that is indeed the case, it has probably been ignored by the people who should’ve delt with it. Those people have much higher budgets and significantly larger resource pools, than what we have available. All we have is each other. For good or bad. Some use the Anonymous name to try to “Profit!” off of it, some use it for nefarious reasons, and we’ve even seen some use it to try to get laid. Regardless of the reason its used, we are united under common goals, for the common good. There are projects we are working on that cannot be discussed, as to do so would impact them negatively, and significantly. However, even those of us working for good, sometimes make very bad, rash, and ill-thought out decisions. Such is the case of one individual who shall remain anonymous. We will leave it at this. To the CIA: We are sorry your website is down. It was not the intended purpose of our actions, however, in doing so we have created a way more significant amount of attention to a situation that goes unnoticed far too often. Six compromised servers containing child pornography are activly DDOSing your webserver. We cannot stop this, we have no access to them, due to the fact that the network link is entirely saturated and we cannot log back in. It will stop 41.6 days after the time it began. Your only choice is to act, and have them taken offline, which should have already happened. We are Anonymous. We are legion, We do not forgive, We do not forget. You should have expected us…” Although this is not the first time that CIA website had been a target and put to offline. June 2011 also witnessed a temporary inaccessibility to the agency’s homepage. This act was allegedly committed by Lulz Security, a group allied to Anonymous. The world is eagerly awaiting the repercussion of the Investigating and security bodies and to barricade the open challenges of the hacking groups and their being successfully implementing what they intend. |
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Hacking activities have spread like an epidemic and it’s so atrocious that it made way through the most secured and highly impenetrable US federal agency and made the CIA website inaccessible on Friday. The latest technology news reveals that this appalling activity was executed and admitted to have committed on twitter by an anonymous collective hacker. The twitter post on a feed by Anonymous said, “CIA Tango down”. This is a phrase that is used by the US Special Forces on having an enemy killed. But again owing to an anonymous reason another tweet clouds up the air creating confusion with its statement that said as only because the prior statement speaks of hack, it doesn’t mean that Anonymous had implemented the attack.