Department of Homeland Security website hacked by Anonymous

**briefly, but note it's the Russians (rt.com) who bring it to our
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Department of Homeland Security website hacked by Anonymous
http://rt.com/usa/news/homeland-security-website-anonymous-473/print/
Published: 4 February, 2012, 01:09
Edited: 4 February, 2012, 01:20

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 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.

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