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)
     
  2. moon

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    I dub the culprit Stuxnetanyahu.
     
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    Federal Reserve hacked...
    :omg:
    Federal Reserve's Internal Site Hacked
    February 07, 2013 WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve said on Tuesday that one of its internal websites had been briefly breached by hackers, though no critical functions of the U.S. central bank were affected by the intrusion.
     
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    Cyber war!!!!! Time to grant Barack Obama plenary power over the Internet.
     
  5. moon

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    :mrgreen: Time to remove his power over his biro.
     
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    I cannot understand why muslims hate Obame Hussain ? I really can't.
    He is on their side.
     
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    Maybe the hackers will attack the Zionists nuclear reactors and send their centrifuges spinning into orbit,and close down their illegal nuclear weapons manufacturing next

    International sanctioning for the Israeli terrorist entity should be next

    Blockade them in within their cement walls and cut off their blood and air supply
     
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    Who thinks this hacking is coming from a teen or early-20s kid in their basement? Too bad the person has "Palestinian sympathies," I'm sure the Israelis would want to use those skills for their own hacking attempts towards Iran.
     
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    Israel getting a taste of its own hacking medicine? What a shame:clapping:
     
  10. Jack Napier

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    You can rely on the Zio's to invest time and money creative...a virus. How fitting.:love:

    I'd read about Stuxnet, some while back. It was so ace, that I believe it infected many targets that it was not meant to. Would have to double check the detail. Cyber false flags are the where it will be at now, for the Zio's and ghouls. Various advantages, the main one being the chance to actually create more havoc, than a conventional false flag. The other being that there is less risk. The third advantage is that on the back of it, you can then hurry out new legislation, which they have already written anway.

    To that end, I am DEEPLY suspicous of that group that call themselves Anon. There is much about them that does not ring true, to me.

    For one thing, what was their inspiration? A really medicore film. Right, okay, I can see how that may have inspired people to start wearing those silly masks, but that is a far cry from what seems to be a highly professional and co-ordinated effort.

    They claim they are not organised, and there is no command structure. A flat out lie, imo. If there was NO organisation and NO command structure, it would be IMPOSSIBLE to launch a concentrated and agreed upon attack, everyone would just be doing their own thing.

    They like to appear to be champions of the underdog, look at who they target, it *seems* to be all those most would cheer them on for doing so. And yet there is no organisational element, they say? No command structure, they claim? No funding, financing, NOTHING. I do not believe it. Even their presentations are all too slick and studio like. Again, if just anyone were doing it, disorganised, some would look v rough and ready efforts.

    And sure, you may get a few hackers busted for filesharing, but given who they are meant to have targetted, it seems mysterious to be that the CIA, the FBI, the Missad, and whoever else, have not made massive numbers of arrests.
     
  11. <IF> Marius

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    Ugh. UGH!

    For (*)(*)(*)(*)s sake.

    There is no GROUP called ANONYMOUS.

    Anonymous refers, specifically, to the fact that those who idetify themselves as such and are in turn identified by others are ANONYMOUS.

    They rely on no net handle, avatar or name when posting, carrying out raids or hacking. The Anonymous refers specifically to the fact they are, by all accounts, anonymous. How hard is this for people to grasp?

    Originating somewhat before that but becoming well known through *chan imageboards, Anonymous refers to Internet users that are anonymous.

    The movie that mainstreamed the Guy Fawkes masks? It came out YEARS after Anonymous was a colloquial saying for the collective of Internet users that remained anonymous. Popular amongst 4channers, the mask came to represent anarchist beliefs and symbolise the same ideas that came about from V for Vendetta (also from the graphic novel that was out decades before the movie). Just as the green skinned, black suited avatar has been (a 4chan symbol used in web comics to represent "Anon").

    They have no ideology, they have no leadership, they have no beliefs, they have no structure at all. They are simply the collective force of everyone who is anonymous, usually on the Internet.

    They routinely attack themselves, raid opposing causes, they can care strongly one way and another and have people not care at all.

    These guys carrying out hacking attacks are not part of some conspiracy. They are a group of anonymous Internet users who have gotten together to organise this particular raid.

    Anonymous is a colloquial term. That is all. They choose to call themselves that to form a collective solidarity and establish a boundless threat to those they are attacking.

    It's, literally, no different than saying "a group calling themselves 'humans' attacked an Israeli website today". Nobody gets arrested because they usually take part in these sorts of raids with a great deal of proxies, usually at a Internet Cafe, and their lack of any hierarchy or structure makes it impossible to arrest anyone but individuals involved.

    It could well be a false flag, it could also well not be, but in either case there is no group called Anonymous. Expecting them to be held accountable or hold ideals or consequences like an actual group is ridiculous.
     
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    If you really want to know how the whole thing got started in the first place, you should read We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency by Parmy Olson. This is assuming, of course, that you are already unfamiliar with 4chan and the /b/ board.
     
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    100% false flag and artifical imo.
     

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