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Department of Homeland Security website hacked by Anonymous

Published time: February 03, 2012 21:09
Edited time: May 26, 2012 19:12
Department of Homeland Security website hacked by Anonymous (REUTERS / Peter Andrews)

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 releases.

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.

Comments (31)

Anonymous user 11.05.2013 03:13

Thank you for speaking for us ANON.

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jeffason 06.04.2012 06:24

sure, the ddos attacks are less than impressive but they're still hilarious when they hit these "too big to fail" websites in the face.
anonymous does plenty of impressive stuff.  you should look at some of the leaked dox they've leaked over the years.  ddos doesn't get you dox fwiw.
note how often anonymous blatantly brings down these super big websites but never gets caught.  they're just taunting them and i find it funny.  also, btw, some of the smartest nerds in existence today live in their mom's basements.  technology changes at a rapid pace and people with dayjobs can hardly keep up.  those with tons of time in their hands and no responsibility to provide for themselves/families do a much better job keeping on top of things.
so, watch what you say, they might be coming for you next =)

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Dirk123 21.02.2012 14:18

Anonymous aren't what or who they make themselves out to be. Think about it, so many years of the internet and these so called elite hackers only use DDos attacks! This is just fueling the fire for internet censorship & these braindead nerds/wanna-be hackers feeling empowered by amateur programs like LOIC (Low Orbit Ion Canon) are in for a big shock. Anyone stupid enough to trust anonymous will soon regret it. Do you honestly think that people with IQ's as high as is required to bypass security systems are really stupid enough to do so with LOIC! If you support this nonsense group you are doing nothing more than adding more fish in the barrel for the governments amusement.

Go vernments want complete internet autonomy and censorship. How do they achieve this?

1) Create the problem = Anonymous.
2) Implement the solution = No privacy on the internet.

Ano nymous will dissapear after no. 2 is implemented because the same individuals are doing both jobs.

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