http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/1.546299
By Gili Cohen and Orr Hirschauge
Haaretz
Sep. 10, 2013
Hundreds of Israelis who have recently reported slowdowns in their
Internet access appear to have been the victims of cyberattacks, Haaretz
has learned. This comes as a hacker group evidently protesting Israeli
policies is planning its latest round of cyberattacks on Israeli websites,
scheduled for today.
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.
Following reports of the slowdowns in Internet use, technicians in a
communications company raised the possibility of an intentional attack
directed at computers unprotected by a password and thus open to being
hacked.
Home computers unprotected by a password, or whose operators have given
the password to a technician to allow repairs, are vulnerable to hackers
in another country seeking such openings. The National Cyber Bureau says
the hacker involved in these cases is known to them.
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