Hackers Join the Fight

defensenews.com 18 Dec '12, 12pm

Hackers Join the Fight - Nonstate Cyber Warriors Pose New Threat:

The mid-November flare-up in the conflict between Israel and Hamas, the terrorist organization that runs the Gaza Strip, marked another step in the burgeoning trend of involvement by nonstate cyber actors in conflicts. Hours after the Nov. 14 Israeli drone strike that opened Operation Pillar of Defense, Jerusalem’s latest effort to suppress rocket fire from the Gaza Strip into Israel, the hacker collective Anonymous responded with its #OpIsrael, a code name for its anti-Israel operations. The group’s post on AnonPaste said, “When the government of Israel publicly threatened to sever all Internet and other telecommunications into and out of Gaza, they crossed a line in the sand.” Anonymous provided an electronic “Care Package for Gaza” with instructions for re-establishing Internet connections and launched massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against Israel....

Full article: http://www.defensenews.com/article/20121217/DEFFEAT05/312...

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