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Penetrated US Government Websites WeaselZippers.us A group going by the name of the "Tunisian Cyber Army", claims that they, in coordination with the Al-Qaeda Electronic Army (AQEA), have hacked four US government sites within the last few days. The sites allegedly hit included the US State Department, the Army National Guard, the US Customs & Border Protection and Office of Personnel Management. The hackers says they identified and exploited vulnerabilities on two domains owned by the US Department of State and one for the Army National Guard. The attackers claim to have obtained sensitive information, including the IP addresses of government computers and servers. The groups says it is holding onto the information to work on hacking more IPs. The group also says they had the assistance of "Chinese hackers." The group claims that this is all in preparation for #OpBlackSummer, an effort to attack US targets between May 31 and September 11. They have contacted a few hacking media websites to present the evidence of their attacks, showing the links to the vulnerabilities that they claim to have exploited. Those sites, E Hacking News, Hack Red and Ill Secure believe the claims to be valid. Softpedia also believes that the hacks are legitimate. The group has not as yet provided pastebin evidence of data seized or other usual proof of successful attack, however. They claim to be holding 72GB of data that they say they will drop on May 31 at the start of #OpBlackSummer. They say they want to use some of that information to make further attacks. The group has claimed responsibility for prior hacking attacks against CBN (Christian Broadcasting Network) as well as against banks. They previously posted a pastebin of what appears to be data from a prior attack on a bank. The government has not as yet confirmed these alleged attacks on government sites. However, if the government sites actually have the vulnerabilities cited, that would be troubling as they are things one would not think should be an issue in Dept. of State or Defense websites. READ FULL SOURCE ARTICLE: 03/13/2013 The BasicsProject.org informational and educational pamphlet series is now available for Kindle and iPad. Click here to find out more... The New Media Journal and BasicsProject.org are not funded by outside sources. We exist exclusively on tax deductible donations from our readers and contributors. Please make a tax deductible donation today.
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