AnonyMary

U.S. Government Web Sites Are Attacked by Unidentified Hackers - Bloomberg.com
By Gopal Ratnam and Juliann Neher

July 9 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. government and private company websites were attacked during the July 4 holiday weekend and early this week by hackers who haven’t been identified, officials said.
Web sites of the U.S. departments of State, Treasury and Transportation as well NYSE Euronext, the world’s largest owner of stock exchanges, were affected. The exchange said it was notified by authorities that it had been the target of a cyber attack aimed at slowing or shutting down its Web site. Market data and trading systems were not at risk, it said.
The Department of Homeland Security was aware of the attacks and its Computer Emergency Readiness Team, or CERT, was advising government agencies and private companies on “steps to take to mitigate against such attacks,” Amy Kudwa, a spokeswoman for the department, said in an e-mail yesterday.
The attacks are known as distributed denial of service, a common practice by hackers who commandeer remote computers to flood targeted Web sites with a large volume of data that renders the sites inaccessible to other users. Kudwa said she didn’t have information on reports by Seoul-based Yonhap News that North Korea may have orchestrated the effort.
The attack on the State Department’s state.gov site started July 5, department spokesman Ian Kelly said at the daily briefing with reporters yesterday. “It’s still ongoing, but I’m told it’s much reduced right now,” he said. He also said that he hadn’t noticed “any real difficulties” in accessing the site. He declined to speculate on who was responsible.
‘Particularly Aggressive’
Although attacks that lead to service denials are common, the assault on government and private networks that began during the weekend “was particularly aggressive,” Representative Jim Langevin, a Rhode Island Democrat and a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said in a phone interview.
Government agencies and private companies are working “very well together and are getting better at identifying and improving our ability to respond,” Langevin said. Eventually, with better coordination, such attacks can be prevented, he said.
Langevin said it was premature to say the attacks came from any one country. The National Security Agency is working to identify the perpetrators and “I’m very confident we will have a very good sense of where it originated and who’s responsible,” he said.
Attacks Every Day
“We see attacks on federal networks every single day,” said Nick Shapiro, a White House spokesman. Preventive measures have minimized impact and the assault “had absolutely no effect on the White House’s day-to-day operations,” he said. .........

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U.S. Government Web Sites Are Attacked by Unidentified Hackers - Bloomberg.com

The Goddamn Pacman

.....Wasn't me.

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AnonDividedByZero

I think they're onto us.

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Anonymous

Its more than obvious, NK

AnonyMary

and
".....Wasn't me." said The Goddamn Pacman

lol

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PROTIP: It was North Korea, can we move this to another subforum, or is cyberwarfare between nation states a matter of "Freedom of Expression"

Use the report button

Anonymous

nah-- delete, as people have been searching here for those very terms and they do not apply here at all

Anonymous

Because of a bunch of liberal fucktards that don't actually have to put THEIR lives on the line think its a good idea.


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Freedom of speech is the best thing thing that can ever happen in this world. Maybe people should actually appreciate it.

Anonymous

I cannot view, I am not 18 :-( I just know this is HUGE news and this site does not need to be connected to it is all I am saying.

Anonymous

People need to think.

People need to apperciate.


And if anyone is in their secret treehouses trying to start a revolution THEY better understand there are real people at the other end.

The Goddamn Pacman

According to a news source I read earlier today it said that it might not have been N. Korea, even though traces led back to it. Something to do with false IP tracking or what the fuck.

Not that its very important to the discussion, but just thought I'd throw it out there.

[EDIT]: Nvm, previous news story was updated and that bit of speculation is out. Cocks, etc.

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anonakatie

NK, retaliatory strike cause they think we did it to them.

moose

... then why mention it! (goddamn f*ng propaganda!!!)

anyway,
read a newsarticle yesterday that is most likely some asshole who uses machines that were infected by the mydoom virus. (a MS-Windows virus from eons ago ... if idiots updated their systems, then this could not have happened, so, blame Microsoft. ). This could easily be just a scriptkiddy who wanted to make it to the newspapers... such attacks happen every day, so nothing new here.
btw, governments should give this dude a medal, because it shows the weak spots in their defense without causing any damage.

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Anonymous

I heard it was eBaumsworld.

AnotherMrPink

I hate those guys over at "Unidentified". Gives Anonymous a bad name.

Anonymous - the most ethical people on the planet.

Ilovetheleader

it is if they're going to cite it as a reason to regulate the net

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xenubarb

Maybe it was NSA, giving our govt. an excuse to regulate the net...
This anonymous phenomenon must be pretty disturbing to them. People who dwell on their dirt, but live in a global web of communication, eep!

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none given

That's a bit tinfoily but not unthinkable.
There really are folks out there that just can’t stand that pesky constitution getting in the way of their plans for the U.S.

Anonymous

Um, it's tinfoily AND stupid. US regulation of the 'net would do nothing about an 'attack' from abroad. Nor would it make much sense to go after South Korea.

Mutante

'Attacks every day'.

Unknown hackers my ass. Nothing beats playing co-op.