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Hack Attack: Senate, CIA Sites Take a Hit

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Posted on Jun 15, 2011
http://twitter.com/#!/lulzsecLulz Security

The LulzSec hacktivist group’s logo.

A band of hackers by the collective name of LulzSec brought the CIA’s website down for the count Wednesday, and while they were at it the technogeeks broke into the Senate’s site.

If LulzSec’s distinctive name rings a bell, that may be because it’s the hacktivist outfit that let PBS know its critique of a show about WikiLeaks last month.

“Political Hotsheet” on CBS News:

Meanwhile, the CIA website was taken down Wednesday afternoon. The hacktivist group LulzSec group claimed credit.

“Tango Down—cia.gov—for the lulz,” it wrote on Twitter.

Deputy Senate Sergeant at Arms Martina Bradford said the hackers’ attempts to penetrate the Senate network failed. They were able to download some information from the public site, she said, but could not access sensitive data because they were blocked by a firewall.

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By Lew Ciefer, June 20, 2011 at 11:03 am Link to this comment

@ ardee

It is nauseatingly obvious that you think yourself an individual of superior virtue and much higher moral character than me and others here with whom you have a problem. Yet with all that superior virtue and higher morality you still come across as one of the most miserable, unhappy, and pathetic wretches on the planet. That, of course, is the history of pseudo pious, puritanical, self-righteous, quacksalvers since man first crawled out of the primordial ooze.

Get over yourself!

It’s humanly impossible to maintain anything but superficial feelings for or against 1.4 billion people ardee. I don’t doubt that in your mind you have convinced yourself that you really do care for all the Muslims in the world but I’m here to tell you that you’re full of yourself and that organic, low-fat creamed, frozen carob topped, carrot coffee crapsalotta.

I can demonstrate just how hypocritical your feigned love for your fellow man is by your apparent inability or unwillingness here on this thread.

How many Muslims —that’s the people you claim to ‘luva witha awla ya heart’— have Osama and al-Zawahiri murdered in their campaign to force Wahhabi fundamentalism on the world? Yet you are unable to come here and openly admit that al-Zawahiri is an enemy not only of the U.S. but civilized people the world over. That’s not loving and caring for all those 1.4 billion Muslims in the world ardee; that’s delusion! It’s akin to someone refusing to utter a contrary word about Charles Manson because they’re both white or they’re both Americans, or they’re both Christians, or love cats or whatever. In my opinion it’s one of the most extreme forms of cowardice.

You, and those of your ilk, lack the courage to make tough distinctions for fear of being ostracized and branded by others, ironically, of your ilk. You are trapped by your ideology; your intellectual rubbish. Truth, when contrary to your beliefs, has no room in your world and is the first to be sacrificed for the good of your ideology and belief system.

What does it say about your superior virtue and higher moral character ardee, when you constantly invent straw man arguments and misrepresent statements in order to put others down? How does your god feel about deception ardee? Is that a positive or negative character trait in your belief system? If your god views deception as a negative character trait how do you justify your deceptive practices to him? 

Ardee, it’s obvious that you have a problem with me —not vice versa— but it is a problem that is easily and amicably resolved. We simply stop responding to each other’s post. Don’t address any of your posts directly to me—as you did on this thread—and I’ll do what I usually do with your posts ... ignore them. It’s no big deal on my end. Problem solved ardee, unless of course, your real problem with me is that I still walk among the living.

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By John R., June 16, 2011 at 5:18 pm Link to this comment

If your blogging on any government watchdog site - you are on the list.

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By thecrow, June 16, 2011 at 4:54 am Link to this comment

Maybe they’re still upset over “that Bay of Pigs thing”.

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2008/11/17/head-sh0t/

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By mark_boston, June 15, 2011 at 8:11 pm Link to this comment

It wasn’t a hack; it was a ddos on the CIA’s public website. This kind of news shouldn’t be sensationalized as it allows U.S. govt. officials to introduce legislation that restricts internet activities/freedoms.

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By rico, suave, June 15, 2011 at 6:24 pm Link to this comment

roller:

WTF are you talking about?

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By rollzone, June 15, 2011 at 6:21 pm Link to this comment

hello. i read they will be leaking how in the first
family: both daughters are not his. it is obvious
when you look at family outings, how he is only ever
seen beside the same child, and she protects the
other one. she apparently only bought the “one day
I"ll be ...” line for the first few years; but lost
faith, and went back to her preferred heavier, beefier man friend. there was no way he could keep
her on a short leash, never being home. but as is
with all intelligence gathering, one person’s factual
information is just another person’s gossip. nothing
to read here. no new news. they were hackers. they
can not be trusted.

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