{"id":43277,"date":"2012-02-13T10:17:38","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T08:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=43277"},"modified":"2012-02-13T10:24:19","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T08:24:19","slug":"anonymous-attacks-cia-and-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/43277-anonymous-attacks-cia-and-others.html","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous attacks CIA and others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Hacktivist&#8217; collective, <a title=\"Anonymous hactivist organisation\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/362618-Anonymous\">Anonymous,<\/a> have taken down the CIA\u2019s website in what appears to be a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>This latest attack follows hack attempts by Anonymous against the FBI last week. A CIA representative noted that \u201cWe are aware of the problems accessing our Web site, and are working to resolve them.\u201d Access to the website was restored on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The group also claims to have targeted police and government servers in Alabama, where it claimed to have stolen private information on 46,000 Alabama residents.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the residents, Anonymous stated that \u201cbecause of your police being lazy when it comes to data security,\u201d the group had gained access to names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, criminal records, and license plate numbers stored on the government database.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the group took down the websites for the Mexican Senate and Interior Ministry, as well as exposing email addresses from the Mexican Mining Chamber.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Cnet news site\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1009_3-57375923-83\/anonymous-invites-cia-others-to-its-weekend-party\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cnet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anonymous launch attacks on the CIA after hacking the FBI last week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":29770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[189,1191,2674,8845],"class_list":["post-43277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-anonymous","tag-cia","tag-fbi","tag-hacktivist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43287,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43277\/revisions\/43287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}