"Hackers have taken down two high-profile targets as they continue
their ongoing Web attacks in support of Palestine, defacing Web sites
run by the U.S. Army and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
The
attacks on Thursday took down the Web sites for The United States Army
Military District of Washington and the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, according to Zone-H, a Web site that tracks defacement activity.
The
NATO site is now back online, but the U.S. Army site was still offline
Friday morning. A version of the Web page cached by Google reads: "Stop
attacks u israel and usa ! you cursed nations ! one day muslims will
clean the world from you ! " NATO didn't immediately respond to a
request for comment.
Most other U.S. Army sites do not appear to
have been affected by that attack. The U.S. Army Military District of
Washington is an army command, based in Fort Lesley J. McNair in
Washington, D.C.
Using what's known as a SQL injection attack, the group also defaced the Web site of the Joint Force Headquarters of the National Capital Region,
which handles military incident response for the Washington, D.C.,
area, according to Gary Warner, director of research in computer
forensics with the University of Alabama at Birmingham. A U.S. Army
spokeswoman was unable to immediately comment on reports of the hacks."
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