Posted on 06/28/2006 4:44:30 AM PDT by Esther Ruth
Major Israeli websites hacked
More than 750 Israeli websites hacked in recent hours. Among them: Soldier’s Treasury Bank, Rambam Hospital, and Globus Group ticket center. Hackers: You’re killing Palestinians, we’re killing servers
Gal Mor, Ehud Kinan
Unprecedented number of Israeli websites hacked: Hundreds of websites were damaged by hackers in recent hours, following IDF activity in the Gaza Strip. The hackers are members of the Moroccan “Team Evil” group, responsible for most of the website damage in Israel in the past year. This is the largest, most concentrated attack on Israeli websites in recent years.
A Ynet investigation revealed that more than 750 Israeli websites, on a number of different domains, were hacked into and damaged in recent days. Prominent among them were the Soldier’s Treasury Bank, Bank Hapoalim (not the main page), Rambam Hospital, the Society for Culture and Housing, BMW Israel, Subaru Israel, Jump Fashion, non-profit organization “Yedid,” Kadima’s youth website, and the Globus Group ticket center. Many of these sites have not yet returned to normal.
Hackers left the message: You’re killing Palestinians, we’re killing servers.
Early on Wednesday, the IDF began operation “Summer Rains” in Gaza: Forces entered the southern end of the strip, adjacent to the
point of Cpl. Gilad Shavit’s kidnap. The air force attacked a power station and blacked out areas of Gaza. Three bridges were bombed in central Gaza, in order to prevent movement of the kidnapped soldier.
Many Israeli websites are hacked every day – most of these are small sites, with inadequate information security. It is significantly different when the sites are ones of large companies, who have adequate defenses from this sort of attack.
Past success of Team Evil
In the past, Team Evil succeeded in hacking into several sites of medium-sized but recognized Israeli companies. In April, they hit tens of sites, including those of the “Shilav” children’s store, “The Blue Square” supermarket and McDonald’s.
The group’s spokesman previously told Ynet that “we are a group of Moroccan hackers that hack into sites as part of the resistance in the war with Israel. We attack Israeli sites every day. This is our duty…hacking is not a crime.”
Added another group member: “We want Israel to stop fighting. Stop killing children and we’ll stop hacking.” According to the spokesman, the group’s members are all Moroccan youths, under the age of 20.
The increase in hacking of websites following military operations is a well-known phenomenon, in Israel and in the rest of the world. A similar increase was seen in attacks on both Israeli and Arab websites in the first days of the second intifada, pursuant to military operations that took place in Gaza, Judea and Samaria at that time.
(06.28.06, 12:32)
There is basically one solution to this mess and one only: The slammite world has to be forced to find a place to put the "palestinians", and that place has to be at least 500 miles from Israel. Anything else is unworkable and a sick joke. There is no rational way to make a "state" out of the gaza strip and whatever pieces of the west bank Israel doesn't need for it's own legitimate defense needs.
What if we stop using computers?
"Of course, hackers leave foot prints, false or otherwise" ... Elephant Ears
Can these or other hackers do the same to FreeRepublic.com? I hope not!
Population transfers have occured in the past. This is the only sustained murderous exchange allowed to go on for generations as a result of British deliberate catering to oil interests in the first quarter of the 20th century.
They created, as a long-standing promise to world Jews, an indefensible country surrounded by the most hostile, useless murdering replicas of human beings on the planet.
TO: Tomz,
you're a softie, way to kind !
In the place of PM of Israel, I'd tell the slammite world they had 30 days in which to find a place to put the lunatics, at least 500 miles from Israel, and that any found closer than that 31 days hence would simply be killed, and have a nice day...
"Hackers left the message: You’re killing Palestinians, we’re killing servers."
The hackers could be bloodthirsty hamass types or the howard dean wing of the RAT party.
About 100 miles due west from Gaza ought to be good!
Give them all cement sandles first.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.