From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Bob Garfield. These are the Housian days for hackers.

Another day, another major hack attack.

We had Sony, we had Lockheed Martin, and we had Citigroup. Now we can add the United States

Senate to the list of groups that's experienced a hack attack.

Another cyber attack today.

That one took down the website of the Central Intelligence Agency.

The CIA knocked down.

Hackers in the limelight?

Well, there's Anonymous.

No one knows whether Anonymous is an actual group or a loose affiliation of people.

We do know that the group

or whatever appears to like causes. It hacked the Church of Scientology, and last year it shut

down PayPal, Visa, and MasterCard to protest those companies' refusal to process payments in

support of WikiLeaks. Then there's Lull's Security, or Lulsec.

The name comes from LOL, or Laugh Out Loud,

and it's often described as a group of 1990s-style hackers,

people doing it just for fun.

Lul-Sack hacked the Senate website, the PBS website, and this week, as we heard, the CIA.

Eric Corley is an old-school hacker, the owner and publisher of 2,600, the hacker quarterly,

who goes by his pen name, Emmanuel Goldstein.

We asked him, what was behind Lalsack's recent attacks.

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