Israel Faces Escalating Cyberwar

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @07:50AM from the i'm-sure-it'll-be-over-soon dept.

New submitter 9re9 writes "The NY Times describes what may be the beginning of an actual cyberwar between a pro-Palestinian group and Israeli companies, specifically El Al and the Tel Aviv stock exchange. From the article: 'A hacker identifying himself as oxOmar, already notorious for posting the details of more than 20,000 Israeli credit cards, sent an overnight warning to Israel's Ynet news outlet that a group of pro-Palestinian cyberattackers called Nightmare planned to bring down the sites in the morning.' Though the article is skimpy on technical details, the group appears to have engaged merely in a DDOS attack. Hamas praised the attack as opening 'a new resistance front against Israel.' Is this the first acknowledged cyberwar?"

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Re:"Cyberwar" by Tsingi · 2012-01-17 08:11 · Score: -1, Flamebait

OK, you nailed a spelling error. Personally I see nothing wrong with the context. And as far as spelling errors go, at least it's a slightly esoteric phrase, your work would be best directed at people who can't deal with simple English and word sets like: to/two/too your/you're their/there/they're past/passed &etc.