Hacking group hacks into US Senate

John Blaise
June 16, 2011
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hackers idtheft220If you aren’t aware about the power of hacking groups yet, you should take note at how they are able to do almost anything they want to do in cyberspace. The hacking group known as Lulz hit its latest target over the weekend when they breached the U.S. Senate.

Senate representatives have confirmed that Lulz broke into the Senate’s Web site and was able to gain access to the server’s directory and file structure, and subsequently published the contents on the group’s own website.

In response, the government initiated a security review but so far has determined that network security was not compromised and that no user information was breached.

According to a statement released to AFP and other news services by the Senate’s Office of the Sergeant at Arms, “The intruder did not gain access into the Senate computer network and was only able to read and determine the directory structure of the files placed on Senate.gov…That server is for public access on the public side of the Senate’s network firewall, and any files that individual Senate offices place there are intended for public consumption.”

The Web site of the hacking group Lulz Security or LulzSec, boasted of its attack against the federal government saying:

“We don’t like the US government very much. Their boats are weak, their lulz are low, and their sites aren’t very secure. In an attempt to help them fix their issues, we’ve decided to donate additional lulz in the form of owning them some more!
This is a small, just-for-kicks release of some internal data from Senate.gov – is this an act of war, gentlemen? Problem?”

With that tongue- in- cheek response the hacking group is poking fun at NATO’s stance on hacking as potential act of war.

When is it enough? Why doesn’t the US government simply update their security measures already?

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