{"id":50959,"date":"2012-02-11T02:11:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T00:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=50959"},"modified":"2023-07-26T12:06:04","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T09:06:04","slug":"anonymous-takes-down-cia-web-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2012\/02\/11\/anonymous-takes-down-cia-web-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous Takes Down CIA Web Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-50960\" title=\"anonymous-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/anonymous-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/anonymous-logo.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/anonymous-logo-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>By\u00a0Chloe Albanesius<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><\/strong>Anonymous has ended a rather busy week with a hack of the CIA website, which is currently offline.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;CIA TANGO DOWN:  #Anonymous,&#8221; the @YourAnonNews\u00a0feed tweeted around 3:30pm Eastern.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The CIA.gov website has been unresponsive for about an hour. Anonymous did not release details about the attack, but the group usually uses distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks to take down its targets.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last month, in the wake of the Megaupload shutdown,\u00a0Anonymous also took down\u00a0the websites for <strong>the Department of Justice, the Copyright Office, and the FBI.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just last week, meanwhile, it also\u00a0leaked a conference call\u00a0between the FBI and Scotland Yard in which agents discussed ongoing hacker cases. Anonymous reportedly accessed the call because a foreign police official who received the conference call invite forwarded it to a personal account, where it was intercepted by Anonymous.<\/p>\n<p>This week, the hacker collective focused its attention on overseas issues. It\u00a0leaked emails\u00a0from the office of Syrian President Bashar Assad, which included prep material for a recent Barbara Walters interview. It also\u00a0released emails from the legal team\u00a0who represented Frank Wuterich, the U.S. staff sergeant who led an assault on the Iraqi city of Haditha that left 24 unarmed civilians dead.<\/p>\n<p>Also this week, a hacker loosely affiliated with Anonymous\u00a0posted code\u00a0from security firm Symantec on The Pirate Bay. The hacker had reportedly\u00a0demanded a $50,000 ransom\u00a0in exchange for keeping the code offline, but\u00a0negotiations broke down.<\/p>\n<p>www.pcmag.com,\u00a0February 10, 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Chloe Albanesius Anonymous has ended a rather busy week with a hack of the CIA website, which is currently offline. &#8220;CIA TANGO DOWN: #Anonymous,&#8221; the @YourAnonNews\u00a0feed tweeted around 3:30pm Eastern. The CIA.gov website has been unresponsive for about an hour. Anonymous did not release details about the attack, but the group usually uses distributed denial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":50960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[845,34],"tags":[5851,957,7964,7965],"class_list":["post-50959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scitech","category-usa","tag-anonymous","tag-cia","tag-cia-website","tag-www-cia-gov"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}