Hackers claim responsibility for CIA site

Hackers group Anonymous says attack made the CIA website inaccessible on Friday.


The site remained down for several hours on Friday, though nothing suggests that CIA's actual computers have been compromised.


And this is not the first time. Only last year, Lulz Security, a group associated with Anonymous, temporarily brought down the site's homepage.


Such sites are usually targeted through Denial of Service (DOS) attacks meaning that the server is brought down by bombarding it with a lot of unwanted traffic.


Source: BBC News