Israel rattled as hackers hit bourse, banks, El Al

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  1. Margot

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    Wow.... Is high tech warfare the wave of the future?

    http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/16/israel-hackers-idUSL6E8CG26X20120116

    Israel rattled as hackers hit bourse, banks, El Al
    10:53am EST
    * Deputy foreign minister sees bid to "silence" Israel

    * Attacks deepen jitters after credit card data theft (Recasts with Israeli ministers, banks, Hamas praise)

    By Maayan Lubell

    JERUSALEM, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Hackers disrupted online access to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, El Al Airlines and three banks on Monday in what the government described as a cyber-offensive against Israel.

    The attacks came just days after an unidentified hacker, proclaiming Palestinian sympathies, posted the details of thousands of Israeli credit card holders and other personal information on the Internet in a mass theft.

    Stock trading and El Al flights operated normally despite the disruption, which occurred as Israeli media reported that pro-Palestinian hackers had threatened at the weekend to shut down the TASE stock exchange and airline Web sites.

    While apparently confined to areas causing only limited inconvenience, the attacks have caused particular alarm in a country that depends on high-tech systems for much of its defence against hostile neighbours. Officials insist, however, that they pose no immediate security threat.

    "They have demanded an apology for Israel's defensive measures," Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said on his Facebook page, alluding to the conflict with Palestinians.

    "I am using this platform to send a clear message that ... they will not silence us on the Internet, or in any forum."

    The First International Bank of Israel (FIBI) and two subsidiary banks, Massad and Otzar Hahayal, said their marketing sites had been hacked but that sites providing online services to clients were unaffected.

    Israel's third-largest bank, Discount, said it had been spared attack, but that it was temporarily shutting down foreign access to its website as a precaution.

    The Tel Aviv bourse website could only be accessed intermittently, but screen-based trading was not hit.

    "There has been an attack by hackers on the access routes to the website," said Orna Goren, deputy manager of the exchange's marketing and communications unit. "The stock exchange's trading activities are operating normally."

    El Al said it had taken precautions to protect the company site and warned of possible disruptions to its online activity.

    "CYBER WAR"

    There was no claim of responsibility for Monday's incidents.

    However, the Islamist group Hamas, which governs the small Palestinian territory of Gaza, welcomed the attacks as a blow against the Jewish state, which it refuses to recognise.

    "This is a new field of resistance against the Occupation and we urge Arab youth to develop their methods in electronic warfare in the face of (Israel's) crimes," Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said in Gaza.

    Israeli Information Minister Yuli Edelstein told a conference in Tel Aviv that the cyber attacks were part of a wider move to smear the country's reputation and "threaten Israel's economic stability and security".

    "It's another episode in the war our enemies are conducting as a campaign of delegitimisation to hit our pockets and lifestyle," he said, in reported comments confirmed by his spokesman.

    "Israel must use all measures at its disposal to prevent these virtual dangers from turning into real threats and to prevent with all its force attacks against it and its institutions. Today it's credit card theft and toppling Web sites, and tomorrow it could be theft of security information and harm to infrastructure."

    Israel opened an agency to tackle cyber attacks earlier this month. A founding member of the unit, Isaac Ben-Israel, said the country's most vital systems were already protected, but that incidents like the ones seen recently would only increase.

    "As long as the systems are not guarded, any hacker anywhere in the world can break into them and do damage," Ben-Israel said on Israel Radio. "I believe that, done right, in a year or two, we will be able to wipe out all these hackers' threats." (Additional reporting by Allyn Fisher-Ilan and Steven Scheer in Jerusalem, Tova Cohen in Tel Aviv and Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza; Editing by Crispian Balmer and Alastair Macdonald)
     
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    Well, that oughta get those arabs dancing in the streets and burning US flags as they did on 5/11.
     
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    Major US companies have been under cyber attacks for a decade... every day.. mostly coming from China.
     
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    Well, they may have hit the Israeli Stock Exchange but Israel's stock index rose more than 1% today. :) At any rate, given the propensity of the Israel-hating mob to rewrite history, let's take a mental note and remember who started this cyber war against civilian targets. So that there was no whining a few months/years down the road about bad mean Israel bankrupting the businesses of innocent peace-loving arabs.


    True. The arab wars against Israel destroyed their own military capabilities while turning Israel into a regional superpower. Something tells me a few years from now the Arabs will be terrified to turn on their computers while Israeli web sites and servers will be 100% secure.
     
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    Ah, yes. That was Stuxnetanyahu - as everybody will easily recall.
     
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    That was an attack on a military target. I am sure even you can appreciate the difference. Israel did not attack an Iranian bank or a civilian ImamAir airline.
     
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    A civil power station is not a military target. So your daft assertion crashes by way of Zionism's guilt. In addition, Israel and Iran are not at war- so any attack on Iran by the neoZionist warmongers is an attack on a civilian target, via Stuxnetanyahu or otherwise.
     
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    Really, Israel, the US, the UK perhaps a few other countries had nothing better to do but to write a super-sophisticated worm to attack a power station. LOL, do you believe the nonsense you are spewing? Or do you seriously think you are fooling anyone?
     
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    Governments are very good at organizing a military. They are very poor at protecting computers. The problem here lies in large bot nets and the resulting ability for a tiny cadre of talented individuals to effectively compete with extremely large organizations. This is not a problem that can be solved by overwhelming manpower, which is pretty much the only solution governments can manage.

    This is one area where US government support won't be able to help Israel either. If anything, I would suggest that both sides will become "afraid to turn their computers on".
     
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    Attempting to share the guilt with others won't help the craven Zionists. Everybody believes that they were responsible for Stuxnetanyahu and sensible people accept that the attack was in order to cripple Iran's centrifuges - which are being used in a civil capacity according to Iran's international obligations.
     
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    Why not, if all they were trying to do was test capabilities? I don't think we'll know the truth in this matter for decades.
     
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    Zionist-led cyber pollution mirrors the effect of their doctrine in the Middle East.
     
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    Is this code?????????????????? :twisted::twisted::twisted:
     
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    No, it's 17 superfluous question marks and 3 daft emoticons.
     
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    Actually, most arab countries sent messages of condolences and support after 9/11.
     
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    Oh yes, those scary hacker Palestinians. Must be all those computers and fast internet connections they have in Gaza.

    :bored:

    Israel, a nation that has and consistantly uses both government and government endorsed civilian hackers and propaganda distributors, trying to pretend this is a threat or somehow further justification for Israel's dogmatic oppressive state policies is ridiculously pathetic.

    It's more believable that did this themselves than it being an actual problem to be worried about.
     
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    Every action has an equal and opposite reaction...
     
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    They appear to want to peddle the idea that it was a simple DOS attack. As I don't ever believe one word uttered by any Zionist I'm inclined to suspect something far more troubling for our Middle East squatters.
     
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    The governments sure did, while the population was dancing in the streets and celebrating.

    [​IMG]
     
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    Rattled, not less, lol.
    Some kids activated an attack not on the sites, but simply clogged the internet highway leading to those sites.
    Calling that an attack, is like calling spraying a sideroad poster with black spray an attack.
    Please remember, it is not the El-Al network or the burse network that were clogged, it was the internet site, the brokers continued to issue transactions and the travel agents continued to book flights.
     
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    Really...I dont get why that would be so hard to believe.

    Yes, do not let the footage of Arabs dancing in the streets in celebration fool you. They were crying for us on the inside.
     
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    How many Arabs did you see dancing ?

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    The Five Dancing Israelis Arrested On 9-11


    On the day of the 9-11 attacks, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was asked what the attacks would mean for US-Israeli relations. His quick reply was: "It's very good…….Well, it's not good, but it will generate immediate sympathy (for Israel)"

    (Other Jews are reported to have made similar statement)

    A Mossad surveillance team made quite a public spectacle of themselves on 9-11.

    The New York Times reported Thursday that a group of five men had set up video cameras aimed at the Twin Towers prior to the attack on Tuesday, and were seen congratulating one another afterwards. (1)

    Police received several calls from angry New Jersey residents claiming "middle-eastern" men with a white van were videotaping the disaster with shouts of joy and mockery. (2)

    "They were like happy, you know … They didn't look shocked to me" said a witness. (3)

    [T]hey were seen by New Jersey residents on Sept. 11 making fun of the World Trade Center ruins and going to extreme lengths to photograph themselves in front of the wreckage. (4)

    Witnesses saw them jumping for joy in Liberty State Park after the initial impact (5). Later on, other witnesses saw them celebrating on a roof in Weehawken, and still more witnesses later saw them celebrating with high fives in a Jersey City parking lot. (6)

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    I have not counted them, but I could probably give a rough estimate based on these videos:

    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMOZvbYJMvU"]Palestinians Celebrating 9/11 Attack - YouTube[/ame]

    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV_eN4YEEI0"]Palestinians Celebrating 9/11 - YouTube[/ame]

    Questions? Comments?
     
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    Some Zionists attacks on Gaza, April to August , 2001

    Apr.17 Israel reoccupies parts of Gaza
    Apr.18 Palestinian police post smashed
    May.20 Israel launches missile attack
    Jul.27 Helicopters strike Gaza
    Jul.31 8 dead in attack on Hamas office
    Aug.25 Jets hit Palestinian targets


    Some Palestinians were seen cheering in September , you say ?
     
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    I couldnt see more than a dozen or two, hardly b representative of six -eight Million Palestinian or the "trillions " of Arabs which Jews are constantly telling us abt , IZZIT ?



    However - IMO - for those in the video - its understandable , considering how they've already suffered + been through thanks to US foreign Policy + its support to the Zionist entity- ISRa-hell .

    Those few Arab's jubilation is no surprise , any more than American jubilation (dancing in Times Square etc., when many more thousands human beings were incinerated in Hiroshima + Nagasaki, etc,etc.

    On the other hand there was also many more Arabs , who felt + showed far more sympathy , once the full gravity of the attack + death count , became widely known.




    Sad Sviour - get this - as long as America is perceived to be an enemy , pose a threat , whether by Latinos-Hispanic Sth Americans , Middle Easterners, Africans , Asians etc. some of those people will no doubt rejoice in America's misfortune. Like it or not , its part of human nature.


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