Matthew 24:7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places.
Editor’s Note: In May 2011, the Wall Street Journal published an article titled “Pentagon: Cyber Attacks Can Count as Acts of War.” The article began, “The Pentagon has concluded that computer sabotage coming from another country can constitute an act of war, a finding that for the first time opens the door for the U.S. to respond using traditional military force.”
The U.S. Army’s official website was taken down Monday by hackers who claim they were the Syrian Electronic Army.
The attack forced the Army to take army.mil offline to protect from further damage.
The hacking comes less than a week after the discovery of Chinese hackers breaking into several important federal government servers that housed the personal information of millions of federal employees.
“Today an element of the Army.mil service provider’s content was compromised,” Army Brig. Gen. Malcolm Frost said in a statement. “After this came to our attention, the Army took appropriate preventive measures to ensure there was no breach of Army data by taking down the website temporarily.”
The Syrian Electronic Army launched in 2011 with a stated goal of attacking the enemies of the Syrian government. They claim to not be officially connected to the Syrian government.
The Army has been the target of hacking in the recent past. Five months ago the website was hit by pro-ISIS hackers who posted messages on the Army’s YouTube and twitter accounts.
