WASHINGTON: The website of the Central Intelligence Agency was
unresponsive on Friday after the hacker group Anonymous claimed to have
knocked it offline.'CIA Tango down,' a member of Anonymous said on
@YourAnonNews, a Twitter feed used by the group. 'Tango down' is an
expression used by the US Special Forces when they have eliminated an
enemy.Attempts to access the CIA website at cia.gov were unsuccessful.A
CIA spokesman had no immediate comment.Anonymous last month briefly
knocked the websites of the US Justice Department and the Federal Bureau
of Investigation offline.Those attacks were in retaliation for the US
shutdown of file-sharing site Megaupload. There was no immediate
explanation from Anonymous for the targeting of the CIA site.Most
Anonymous cyberattacks are distributed denial of service attacks in
which a large number of computers are commanded to simultaneously visit a
website, overwhelming its servers. (AFP)
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