Hactivist group, Anonymous has garnered fame, fans, followers and enemies by targeting government organisations for its hacking-for-a-cause. Hacking into the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) website and even phonecalls, this week they directed their anger towards the Central Investigation Agency (CIA), the premiere spy agency in the world.
Mashable reported on Friday that Anonymous took down CIA's website at about 3:50 (US eastern time) Friday. They subsequently announced this through one of their affiliate Twitter accounts in a message reminiscent of lingo used by agents to denote one of them has been struck down: "CIA TANGO DOWN: cia.gov"
Last week, as the group hacked into the FBI, it released an audio recording of a conversation between the FBI and Scotland Yard about a joint cybercrime investigation into the workings of Anonymous.
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@Colonel: The security of the CIA's actual computer systems has not been hacked. This is only a denial-of-service attack which overloads the servers with page requests. So what's the big deal?
Denial of service attacks has nothing to do with breaking someones security --- it should also be noted that the CIA doesn't use it's webpage for anything other than basic PR and making the site "busy" for a few hours has no impact on CIA operations. It would be akin to closing down the Pakistan military website - except that no one would notice or report that.
Anonymous hackers hacked website of onymous hackers.... tit for tat
No one is invincible after all.
LOL. *Facepalm
I think in the future governments will decide that tracing and imprisoning hackers is the only way to stop hacking attacks
hello
After 2010, the on going decade is dedicated for the Hackers.
No body can stop them from hacking any website in the world.
But their targets are government's websites so that they can put their demands and make the government's understand as what to do and what should not be done.
This is a new way of putting their demands.
I think that such cases are directly cases of website's kidnapping and then demanding for ransom.
Hacker breached into most secure website, Salute to the Talent of the Hacker, these people are precious and rare :)