Battle for Gaza Fought on the Web, Too. Written by Jart Armin
Whatever your personal perspective on the rights and wrongs of the current Palestinian-Israeli war in Gaza, there's a second front being fought on the Internet. This form of warfare is a battle of words and often vivid imagery engaged by hackers from either side of the divide. The image shown below is a highly graphic example from a defaced Israeli commercial Website, hacked by "DNS Team" today. Many are familiar with the explosive form of botnet-based direct denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks carried out and widely reported, against governmental Websites in Estonia in 2007 and Georgia in August 2008. In fact this particular cyberwar in the Middle East has been going on since at least 2001. Mirroring the real world, this cyberwar waxes and wanes as the ground warfare fans the flames on the Internet at times such as this. The tactics include many sophisticated hacking techniques more frequently used against commercial sites, but this development is important to any commercial or governmental network operation. more... http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=717&doc_id=169872&; _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
