"It didn't take long after Israel's bombing of
Gaza began for cyberwarfare to erupt as well: over 300 Israeli Websites
over the past few days have been hacked and defaced with anti-Israeli
and anti-US messages in an online propaganda campaign, a security
expert says.
Gary Warner, director of research in computer forensics at the
University of Alabama at Birmingham and a co-chair of the Anti-Phishing
Working Group, warned in his blog
that U.S. Websites should be prepared for similar attacks. "In the
current situation, the hackers supporting Gaza clearly believe Israel
AND the US are culpable. That means American webmasters may wish to be
especially vigilant right now," Warner blogged.
The attacks on Israeli sites occurred within a period of 48 hours, in what Warner calls a "Propaganda War."
"As soon as Israel started bombing Gaza we began to look for
signs of a cyber response. And we've found it, in the form of more than
300 Israeli websites which have been defaced with anti-Israeli and
anti-US messages," Warner blogged.
He says these types of propaganda Website attacks are all about
location, not size or prominence of the targeted site. "It only matters
WHERE the Website is," he says."
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