A demonstrator with Anonymous wearing a Guy Fawkes mask. Photo by Bloomberg
Hackers Pledge To Attack Israeli Websites On September 11 -- Haaretz
AnonGhost, group evidently protesting Israeli policies toward Palestinians, urges followers to vandalize and flood Israeli sites with traffic.
A hacker group evidently protesting Israeli policies is planning a new round of cyberattacks on Israeli websites – scheduled for Wednesday, September 11.
The group, AnonGhost, has released a list of Israeli online targets, including numerous government websites, on Internet forums used by the Anonymous Collective.
In allusion to previous such cyberattacks, the operation is titled OpIsrael Reborn. Ahead of the attack, the group released 165,000 listings of names, addresses, e-mail addresses and phone numbers of Israelis early on Monday. The information was likely obtained by hacking into an Israeli Web hosting site. It is yet unclear how updated this data is, or how many of the listings repeat themselves.
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My Comment: I expect these attacks to have little if any impact on internet traffic to and from Israel.
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