NSA's Web site is MIA, cause unclear
Source: CNET
The NSA's public-facing Web site has been down for several hours Friday, with some speculating that the outage is due to a denial-of-service attack meant to protest the agency's surveillance programs. It's not clear, however, what the cause is.
Russia Today pointed to a couple of tweets from Twitter users that it said were "loosely affiliated" with the hacking collective Anonymous, saying the tweets suggested the group was responsible. But the tweets aren't conclusive. (One says, "So If it's a attack comming from me, or maybe from a country? won't say! It's just looks like a start of a cyber war."
And Business Insider called out a tweet from @AnonyOps that says, somewhat amusingly (though still inconclusively), "Aww don't panic about http://nsa.gov being down. They have a backup copy of the internet."
On the other hand, Gizmodo noted that the Anonymous-related tweets were sluggish in appearing and it pointed to a tweet it said underlined the fact that "it's a bit weird for an attack on a website as prominent as the NSA's to go unclaimed."
Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57609421-38/nsas-web-site-is-mia-cause-unclear/
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