Posted on 01/04/2012 5:32:52 PM PST by Milagros
Saudis laud credit card hacking scheme
Ynetnews - Jan 4 - 2012
Scheme widely reported in Saudi-Arabia as web surfers welcome damage caused to Israelis. ‘Jews are the most despicable, Hitler was right,’ one talkbacker says
Roi Kais Published: 01.03.12, 19:56 / Israel News
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“If I were a hacker I would wish for 800000 credit cards to be leaked, not just 400000,” one ... The responses were mostly hostile towards Jews and Israel. ...
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4170888,00.html
Saudis Claim Credit For Hack Of Israelis’ Credit Cards
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Adam Dickter Assistant Managing Editor
A group of Saudi hackers calling themselves Group XP claimed credit for exposing thousands of Israelis’ credit card numbers and other information on Monday.
“We decided to give the world a new year gift, about 400,000+ Israeli people information!!!,” declared the group, believed to be connected to the global hacking group Anonymous, whose affiliates have been arrested around the world for denial-of-service attacks on private and government web sites.
The information, collected by tracking purchases by Israelis, was posted on a page that redirected from a popular Israeli sports site, ONE, but quickly removed.
The attack targeted users of cards issued by IsraCard, Cal-Israel and Leumi Card. Those companies insisted the number of hacked accounts was far less than the Group Xp boast, about 15,000, and that users would not be held responsible for any fraudulent charges
The Israelis names, emails and credit card numbers, including the three-digit security codes were exposed.
The attack is an embarrassment to a country that prides itself on its fast growing high-tech industry.
“There’s no question that website security in Israel has to improve,” Dov Kotler, CEO of one of the affected credit card companies, Isracard, told Yediot Acharanot. “The newer websites pose less of a problem, because their security protocols are higher – it’s the older websites that have outdated security.”
Various reports quoted the hackers as saying in a statement “it will be so fun to see 400,000 Israelis stand in line outside banks and offices of credit card companies to complain that their cards had been stolen. To see banks shred 400,000 cards and reissue them. To see that Israeli cards are not accepted around the world, like the Nigerian cards.”
Chester Wisniewski, a senior advisor at Sophos, a global cybersecurity firm based in Canada, said both supporters and enemies of Israel have for years been waging denial-of-service attacks, which overwhelm a web site’s servers, in support of their causes. “It’s just a new twist on an old war,” he said.
http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/brief/saudis_claim_credit_hack_israelis_credit_cards
Netanyahu’s anti-cyber terror task force is virtually nonexistent
Haaretz - 04.01.12
Isaac Ben-Israel, to form defenses against “cyber attacks which can paralyze entire life systems on which the country runs. Electricity, credit cards, water ...
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/netanyahu-s-anti-cyber-terror-task-force-is-virtually-nonexistent-1.405345
‘Saudi hacker’ publishes Israeli credit card details
“A self-defined Saudi hacker claimed he had published details of 400,000 Israeli-owned credit cards online, but the card firms on Tuesday insisted that only 14,000 cards had been affected.
Details of the hack were exposed late on Monday in a statement posted on an Israeli sports website.”
(Source: AFP: ‘Saudi hacker’ publishes Israeli credit card details.)
http://www.riskintel.com/2012/01/saudi-hacker-publishes-israeli-credit-card-details/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Threatfusion+%28RiskIntel+-+tracking+real-time+global+risk...%29
http://www.jihadmonitor.org/articles.php?entry=202095
I have no use for Saudi Arabia. None. If it vanished from the face of the earth tomorrow, no biggie.
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