Latest hot news on the net, CIA Site Blocked by Virus Attack. The official website of the CIA, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, has not been available for several hours Wednesday, June 15 evening. Hackers grouped under the name of Lulz Security (LulzSec) announced that they had launched an attack against the site. In the minutes of the claim, broadcast via Twitter midnight, access to the site was broken. Later that evening, the connections were sporadic, before gradually returning to normal Thursday morning.
According to preliminary information, the site seems to have been the victim of an attack called "denial of service", which consists of connections to saturate an Internet site to block access. This does not allow access to files stored on a site or a computer network, but simply to block access. The denial of service attacks do not require advanced knowledge in computing, but spend most often by using a network of computers controlled by attackers, known as "zombies."
The group Lulz Security, unknown a month ago, has shown in recent weeks claiming attacks against groups Sony and Nintendo, as well as video game publisher Bethesda. LulzSec also claimed responsibility for attacks against the United States Senate, the public television channel PBS, a major porn site and an organization working with the FBI, InfraGard.
Unlike the group Anonymous, which has claimed several attacks in the name of freedom of expression, says acting Lulz Security "for fun" . After publishing usernames and passwords porn site Pron.com, the group has encouraged users to use these codes to hack into Facebook accounts or e-mail users of the site, and reveal their relatives that they were subscribed to a pornographic site.
The identity of the group, which seems much smaller qu'Anonymous, is still unknown. A young man, described as a member of Lulz Security by police, was arrested in the U.S. last week, but the group denied involvement in the organization. We hope that CIA Site Blocked by Virus Attack will be normal as soon as possible.
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