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Posted on 11/06/2011 12:22:51 PM PST by NormsRevenge
JERUSALEM, Israel (AP) -- Many of Israel's official websites have gone down in what the government says is a broad technical malfunction.
The sites include that of the Mossad and Shin Bet intelligence services, the military spokesman, the Interior Ministry and others.
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I think an attack would be less embarrassing than a technician tripping over the server's power cable.
I work for an IT's "Department of Redundancy Department" in my line of work...
You don't take out these level of sites by a single failure, hardware or otherwise. Something stinks, and I don't like the smell. Stuxnet showed how sophisticated cyberwarefare has become. It's war in a whole new dimension. Stop and think if tomorrow, the internet just stopped. Commerce, banking, distribution on all levels would come to a screeching halt.
If you've not considered it and potentially (even partially) prepared for it, you are going to be a deer in the headlights...
Must be nice to have a wife who understands the importance of fulfilling those obligations, no matter how rigorous they may be.
We nerds occasionally get them.
I prefer the explanation where "Kevin" at support in Mumbai exhausts his decision tree and recommends the third shift reboot the whole machine room because the boss's laptop has been blue-screening when he connects to the wireless router.
The country also most closely associated with cyberwarfare against the United States and her allies.
Thanks grey_whiskers.
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