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2013-10-26 Home Front: WoT
NSA site down due to alleged DDoS attack
The website for the United States National Security Agency suddenly went offline Friday.
Really shouldn't snicker, NSA is supposed to DO this sort of thing, not have these things DONE to them...
NSA.gov has been unavailable globally as of late Friday afternoon, and Twitter accounts belonging to people loosely affiliated with the Anonymous hacktivism movement have suggested they are responsible.

Twitter users @AnonymousOwn3r and @TruthIzSexy both were quick to comment on the matter, and implied that a distributed denial-of-service attack, or DDoS, may have been waged as an act of protest against the NSA.

Allegations that those users participated in the DDoS — a method of over-loading a website with too much traffic — are currently unverified, and @AnonymousOwn3r has previously taken credit for downing websites in a similar fashion, although those claims have been largely contested.

The crippling of NSA.gov comes amid a series of damning national security documents that have been disclosed without authorization by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden. The revelations in the leaked documents have impassioned people around the globe outraged by evidence of widespread surveillance operated by the NSA, and a massive “Stop Watching Us” rally is scheduled for Saturday in Washington, DC.

DDoS attacks are illegal in the United States under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, or CFAA, and two cases are currently underway in California and Virginia in which federal judges are weighing in on instances in which members of Anonymous allegedly used the technique to take down an array of sites during anti-copyright campaigns waged by the group in 2010 and 2011. In those cases, so-called hacktivsits are reported to have conspired together to send immense loads of traffic to targeted websites, rendering them inaccessible due to the overload.
Posted by Steve White 2013-10-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ]  Top

#1 Could it be a warning message from our.... friends overseas? I recommend contacting Toni Townes-Whitley at CGI at once.
Posted by Besoeker 2013-10-26 03:17||   2013-10-26 03:17|| Front Page Top

#2 From Yahoo news.

"Claims that the outage was caused by a distributed denial of service attack are not true."

The website was operational again around 10:30 pm (0230 GMT Saturday).

The hacker group Anonymous joked about the incident in a tweet, without saying if it had played any role. "Aw don't panic about nsa.gov being down. They have a backup copy of the internet," it said.
Posted by Willy 2013-10-26 05:51||   2013-10-26 05:51|| Front Page Top

#3 NSA sez glitch due to software update.
Posted by Pappy 2013-10-26 16:46||   2013-10-26 16:46|| Front Page Top

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