Department of Homeland Security website hacked by Anonymous

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Only hours after two of its biggest releases ever, the online collective Anonymous is taking credit for crashing the website of the US Department of Homeland Security.
Shortly before 4 p.m. EST Friday afternoon, the Homeland Security Department’s website, DHS.gov, was taken offline.
It was announced on the Web by members of the loose-knit hacktivist collective Anonymous and some claiming allegiance to the group have have taken credit for the attack.
Within minutes, DHS.gov was back up.
The crippling of the DHS website comes on the same day that Anonymous relaunched its FuckFBIFriday campaign. Throughout 2011, the group regularly released information they obtained by infiltrated government computers. After a break in the campaign, the group revisited it early Friday with two rounds of release.
Earlier in the day, Anonymous released the audio of a conference call between the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and Britain’s Scotland Yard in which both organizations discuss Anonymous. The call was conducted this January and the FBI has since confirmed the authenticity of the recording.
Hours later, Anonymous hacked the website for the attorneys of Sgt. Frank Wuterich, a US Marine who was recently on trial for a massacre of Iraqi civilians stemming from a 2005 incident in Haditha, Iraq. Despite admitting his role in orchestrating a raid on two civilian homes and asking his Marines to “shoot first, ask later,” Wuterich was sentenced to no time in jail.
 
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This is so true. A week or two ago, CNN was saying if you put your picture online, then all your information is gone. Your social, address, everything. What they were actually saying, was that some ISP's are selling your information to the highest bidder. Who the hell knows with that really, but the media sure knows how to attract a dumbfound audience.
 
Advocating prison rape is worse than anything anonymous has done.

This seems debatable. Ultimately it's a joke in poor taste, typed on a video game forum. How is that worse than anything Anonymous has done?
 
Does Anonymous ever do anything besides DDOS attacks? I mean its getting a little old, the whole "fear us" act, then they direct traffic at a site, it goes down, it's back up after a certain amount of time, repeat.
 
Does Anonymous ever do anything besides DDOS attacks? I mean its getting a little old, the whole "fear us" act, then they direct traffic at a site, it goes down, it's back up after a certain amount of time, repeat.

They wire tap conference calls between the FBI and Scotland Yard!
 
Go ask ten random people what DDOS means

Which is kind of sad. I feel like schools should require some kind of computer literacy class. Don't think DDOS attacks would be in there but reporting on computer news is painful. And I'm not even that up on tech and whatnot.
 
Which is kind of sad. I feel like schools should require some kind of computer literacy class. Don't think DDOS attacks would be in there but reporting on computer news is painful. And I'm not even that up on tech and whatnot.
my high school kinda sorta had a computer class but that just covered shit like MS office and other mundane stuff
 
no just posted on 4chan when it was popular/started

Oh right, i suggest you start a thread on Anon, educate everyone on them, because obviously to you it's clear that nobody knows to much about them...seems like something people should know about?
 
Advocating prison rape is worse than anything anonymous has done.

I'm not advocating for it per se. I just want people to face the consequences for violating the law, especially when they think si high and mighty of themselves. I was merely highlighting an unintended consequence of going to prison.

They do some good stuff once in a while, but I feel no simpathy for them.
 
DDoS? sigh....that's not "hacking" that's like calling someone on their phone repeatedly so other people get a busy signal and then claiming you "hacked" their phone.
 
I'm not advocating for it per se. I just want people to face the consequences for violating the law especially when they think si high and mighty of themselves. I was merely highlighting an unintended consequence of going to prison.

They do some good stuff once in a while, but I feel no simpathy for them.

When has rape been considered a legal punishment?
 
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