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<h1 class="article-title">Hacker group ‘Anonymous’ takes down hundreds
of Israeli websites</h1>
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<span class="article-details"><span class="article-detail"><img
class="icon" src="cid:part1.09000909.02070800@freedomarchives.org"
alt="author"> Sunday April 07, 2013 12:50</span><span
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src="cid:part2.04020007.07010908@freedomarchives.org" alt="author"> by
Saed Bannoura - IMEMC News</span></span><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.imemc.org/article/65303">http://www.imemc.org/article/65303</a><br>
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<blockquote class="article-intro">Late Saturday night, hackers
affiliated with the worldwide network known as ‘Anonymous’ attacked
hundreds of Israeli websites as part of a campaign targeting Israel for
their occupation of Palestinian land and attacks against Palestinian
civilians.</blockquote>
On Saturday night, a group calling itself ‘The N4m3le55 cr3w’ announced
that they “have gathered 600 websites and 100 plus servers we will be
attacking”, and promised that the total number of sites that would be
taken down and/or defaced would number more than thirteen hundred.<br>
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As of Sunday morning, hundreds of Israeli websites, including the Bank
of Israel, Tax Authority, the Kadima partyand the Central Bureau of
Statistics, were down, and hundreds more had been taken down by their
owners as a precaution against attack.<br>
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While the Israeli government claimed that Distributed Denial of Service
(dDoS) attacks were the only tools that the hackers would be able to
use to get at the Israeli websites, other sources claim that the
hackers have been able to infiltrate websites with malware and Trojan
horses. This creates a more complex security problem for the website
owners than the dDoS attacks, which take down a site temporarily by
overloading the server with page requests.<br>
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two weeks ago by anonymous in which the details of hundreds of Israeli
officials were released, and a virus that infected Israeli Facebook
users earlier this week.<br>
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In a statement explaining the reason for this attack, Anonymous said to
the Israeli government “You have NOT stopped your endless human right
violations. You have NOT stopped illegal settlements. You have NOT
respected the ceasefire. You have shown that you do NOT respect
international law”.<br>
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“This is why on April 7, elite cyber-squadrons from around the world
have decided to unite in solidarity with the Palestinian people against
Israel as one entity to disrupt and erase Israel from cyberspace.”<br>
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A representative of the Israeli government’s cyber bureau played down
the attack, saying “Anonymous doesn't have the skills to damage the
country's vital infrastructure.”
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