LulzSec hackers taunt with telephone hotline

Two British members of the hacking group LulzSec admitted Monday carrying out cyber attacks against the CIA and Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper group News International.Ryan Cleary, 20, and Jake Davis, 19, pleaded guilty at London's Southwark Crown Court to charges that they launched distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on the organisations' websites last year, a court official said.The activity involves overwhelming websites with simultaneous requests, resulting in the sites shutting down.

It's easy to think of Anonymous as a group of punk troublemakers, raising hell online. Some have even debated whether their extra-legal protests should be labeled terrorist acts.

Hackers who have hit the websites of the CIA, US Senate, Sony and others during a month-long rampage claimed on Monday to have knocked the site of Britain's Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA) offline."Tango down - soca.gov.uk - in the name of #AntiSec," the hacker group known as Lulz Security said in a message on their Twitter feed @lulzsec."Tango down" refers to the elimination of an enemy while "AntiSec" refers to "Operation Anti-Security," a campaign launched by Lulz Security against government websites.

The public website of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was apparently knocked out of commission by hackers.The US spy agency's cia.gov website stopped responding and members of a hacker group called Lulz Security claimed credit in a message on Twitter at @LulzSec."Tango down - cia.gov," the message read. "For the lulz."Attempts by AFP to reach cia.gov were met with a message saying the Web page was not available.Cia.gov was back online within two hours.

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