US Sentencing website hacked into video game "Asteroids"

Summary: The U.S. Sentencing Commission website has been hacked a second time. A code distributed by Anonymous "Operation Last Resort" turns ussc.gov into a game of Asteroids.

By Violet Blue for Zero Day | January 28, 2013 -- 00:03 GMT (16:03 PST)

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Anonymous "Operation Last Resort" turns U.S. sentencing website into "Asteroids"

More code under the hack.

Topic: Security

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ussc.gov down?

As of 6:30 PM CST, it appears that ussc.gov is down? downforeveryoneorjustme.com confirms.

Joshua Gross
28 January, 2013 00:26

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Unrelated, but anyone here a Stephen Baxter fan?

I recall a quote from spacebattles about how one poster there likes to think of Asteroids as a game based on the book Exultant, where you play a Xeelee Nightfighter shooting down Rocks. They add that while the game came out 25 years before the book, if you are a fan of said books you see why that isn't really a problem.

Max™‮‮
28 January, 2013 02:02

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