Datagate, NSA violated site: Anonymous claims but the agency denies ... - The Messenger

Since out of the shadows and ended up in the eye following the revelations of the ‘mole’ Edward Snoweden, there is no peace for the largest U.S. intelligence agency, the National Security Agency. His official website has gone black-out, and immediately hackers Anonymous were quick to say it was their work, but the same Nsa then stated that it was “a technical error.”

Into After that for a few hours the site was inaccessible, a spokesman Vanee Vines, confirmed that there were problems and that they were going verifications. “We’re working,” he merely stated. At the same time, other sources have indicated that there was no indication of an intrusion by hackers, nor a subtraction of data. However, even less than an hour after the site went Breakdown, on Twitter have begun to come out tweets from accounts linked to Anonymous, more or less reliable than that suggested that it was a retaliation for their action the activity of global electronic surveillance conducted by the NSA. An action set-sign with the technique of ‘disributed denial of service’ (DDoS) attacks, or an overload of traffic, contacts conveyed by hackers to send haywire sites targeted.

C ‘was a reference to the DDoS from a Twitter account called annoymousAsia, considered affiliated with the Anonymous group, and also by others, as well as from other accounts always referable to the same group, they arrived ironic, such as AnonyOps: “Aww, do not fear for the interruption of nsa.gov. They have a backup copy of the internet. ” Not long after, the NSA has stated, however, indicated that it was a technical problem and not an intrusion by hackers. “Nsa.gov remained inaccessible for several hours this evening due to an internal error occurred during a scheduled update operation,” the agency said in an e-mail cited by ABC News. “The issue will be resolved” in the next few hours, you can still read the text, which also states that “allegations that the interruption was caused by an attack ‘disributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are not true.”

The Director of the Agency. “We do not just spy on anyone, and certainly not the Americans: we are following the terrorists. And so we also help our allies. We found 54 key events related to terrorism plots, financial transactions and so on. We discovered we have 13 in the U.S., and another 41 abroad, including 25 in Europe. ” This was stated by the director of the National Security Agency (NSA), Keith Alexander, in an interview with the website “Armed with science ‘in Republic shows some excerpts. “We have two missions: to work with foreign services and protect our networks,” says Alexander. “The whole of America works with cybernetics, and we guarantee the security.” “My concern is that reveal the means available to inform the terrorists and we will cause irreversible damage. Now our ability to stop them is reduced. Therefore, when people die, who has revealed that data must be held accountable, “said Alexander, referring to Edward Snowden. “Right now, journalists have in their possession something like 50 thousand documents and they are selling and distributing. We must find a way to stop them, do not know what is up to the courts and politicians but from my point of view you can not allow this to continue. “