Hacking Brazil

The use of technology to try to change the government and the current conditions in nations is becoming more and more prevalent.  Think about it, we have come to a place with technology when people use tweeting as a way to help encourage a revolt.  So does it really come to anyone as a surprise that a nationalist group in Brazil who is protesting the country and its conditions use technology to hack into some of the governments websites to encourage change?

The month of June will hold a very strange historic event for the country of Brazil. According to D3q.com, this is the month that the government has suffered the most attacks through technology and virtually ever in its history.  The hacking and attacks are coming from a group that desires change to happen in the country of Brazil.  This nationalist group wants their country to become better overall, and by breaking into the governments sites, they are protesting their desires.

So many of the country’s government run websites have been subject to hacking this month.  This even includes the presidential website of Brazil.  The attack on the site caused it to be shut down for a period of almost four hours.  The Brazilian Geographics and Statistics Institute was also put out of service thanks to these protest attacks.  Brazilian senate websites, the Sports Ministry and Tax Authority website were also affected by this groups hacking efforts.

So who is this group that is wreaking all the havoc?  The group that claimed the attacks is a hacking group known as LulzSecBrazil.  It is a group from the LulzSec, an international group, that is obviously based in Brazil.  The attacks that they claimed were those on websites that just so happen to be administered by senatorial staff and presidential staff.  It was even siad that the group released and posted the President Dilma Rousseff’s very personal information, like his telephone number.  This was also apparently done to the mayor of Sao Paulo.

Will Brazil make a change to cease the protests?  Who knows, but it is a serious matter.  Technology is now a tool for rebelling and protesting the government.  One must wonder how far some people will go.