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Israeli Infrastructure Proves Too Strong For Anonymous
Mephistophocles writes "Ever since the beginning of Operation Pillar of Defense, hackers have been working overtime to strike a blow against the Israeli government's computer systems, Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz said Sunday. No fewer than 44 million attacks have been recorded since the operation began five days ago — with nearly all of them failing, thanks to the recent strengthening of computer defense systems in Israel. Speaking at a special press conference at the Government Computing Center in Jerusalem about the cyber war against Israel that has accompanied Hamas's rocket attacks, Steinitz said that hackers 'are trying to disable the symbols of Israeli sovereignty, to enter web sites and install anti-Israel content, thus compromising information and data and damaging the government's ability to serve the public.' Most of the attacks, he said, were against government sites, like the Prime Minister's Office site, and security-related sites, such as that of the Home Front Command, the body charged with informing Israelis on how to protect themselves in the event of an attack. Out of those 44 million-plus attacks on government and defense related sites, said Steinitz, only one succeeded – partially. One site, which he did not name, was 'wobbly for a few minutes,' but quickly recovered. Even though the government has been successful in warding off hack attacks, Steinitz said that government sites were fully backed up and mirrored, meaning that they could be replaced by a duplicate site instantly if the original site were compromised."
That's for certain.
Sounds like first class COINTELPRO.
Down in 3, 2 1 ...
you have won the cyber security warz. Now how about being a gracious winner and stop oppressing the Palestinians in real life?
Kudos to the Israeli government for taking proactive measures to secure their infrastructure in the wake of the blood-thirsty terrorist organization threatening to eradicate the Israeli people for a largely made-up offense. The US government should use its strategic political relationship with Israel to learn how to do it themselves.
Clearly this is bait to encourage better attacks.
*sigh*
I'm not sure whether they are a-bomb or h-bombs, but they have them. And I suspect, within my lifetime, they will use them. This one single act will render all other acts of terrorism Lilliputian by comparison.
If it was necessary to keep the networks operating. These kids, like Assange, can be naive.
The "cyber attacks" against Israel are about as impressive as Palestinian missile technology.
If there isn't a picture of Israel getting fucked on/by the Internet -- there soon will be.
Tubal-Cain smokes the white owl.
Sort of like a 5th-grade bully pissing on a main battle tank. 'Success' might mean the tank got wet, but it's not like you're going to slow it down.
Well, first of all, the guy's a liar. Besides his statistics being absurd beyond the pale, he has every incentive to hide the truth, as it feeds the well-oiled Israeli propaganda machine -- and we would do the same thing, as would any marginally-competent intelligence division.
More importantly, though, the simple fact is that Anon isn't what it used to be. Many of the power-hitters have moved on to bigger and better things -- things that pay real money. The few with talent that are still around are often loathe to engage state-funded entities in what has a high probability for inviting the kind of attention that even Anon doesn't want. That whole mess over there is a giant shitpile, and nobody with two neurons to rub together wants to touch it with a 29 1/2 foot pole.
That leaves the script kiddies, and since we've already determined that the intelligence department at play is at least marginally-competent, they aren't going to be wildly successful.
44 million attacks
A DDoS is a single attack.
I'm sure every ping on a port scan counts as a failed attack here.
(Posting anon for obvious reasons. This is a joke!)
Recently, my sister confided a fantastically silly plan for halting the missile strikes in and around the gaza strip.
Take a rickety ald crop duster, paint it in North Korean colors, and use it to drop crushed up pork rinds, and cheap beer all over the conflict area.
The beauty of the plan, is the incluson of poorly translated english language leaflets stating that the fearless leader, kim jong un, has heard of the suffering of the people in the region, and is delivering a humanitarian aid package, compliments of his newly formed "damnation army" program.
By mashing up the pork rinds, you make them light enough to get caught by desert winds, and whirled about like snow, ensuring that the combatants cannot avoid coming into conact with the product.
By making both combattants angry at the distant North Korea, you make the middle east into their and china's problem!
We decided that the porkrinds should be made from 100% vietnamese potbelly pigs, and the beer should be made from as much rice as possible. We gave some thought to what the packaging for the products should say, and decided on "NK krunchies", (with a caricature of kim Jong eating said pork rinds with a shit eating grin on his face), and "Leader's lager", in a super generic looking poptop can.
LOL - the nature of the cyber attacks is that nearly all of them fail.
Since 'nearly' all of them failed, 'some' of them got through.
This is a PR failure Israel - we've woken up to your ethnic cleansing. You're the first to scream holocaust yet you're perpetrating one of your own on the Palestinian people.
You make me, and everyone else that has become aware of what you've been up to the past 60 odd years, disgusted at your lying and murderous ethnic cleansing ways.
Anons everywhere are now thinking to themselves, "challenge accepted."
It's better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.
- E. Debs
lot's of geek suicides to follow.
I got to the chocolate box before you, that's why the hard ones have teeth marks.
When your defenses are tested on a regular and ongoing basis, they become very good. It's not like the attacks from Anonymous were the first nor will they be the last. Kudos to the people who created and maintain these systems.
It would be interesting to know if the Iraelis are doing something the rest of the world doesn't know about (chances are they wouldn't tell us but who could blame them?) or are just rigorously implementing standard computer and network security measures.
Cheers,
Dave
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty.
Ben
Someone should tell this Mr. Chan at Gizmodo, according to him it's been a "whopping takedown." http://gizmodo.com/5961399/anonymous-destroys-israel-by-taking-down-hundreds-of-websites-and-leaking-emails-and-passwords
According to Russia Today, Anon took down over 700 Israeli websites, and also dumped the (sensitive) personal details of almost 5,000 Israeli government employees on the internet: http://rt.com/news/anonymous-israel-officials-leaked-002/ --------- It seems to me that the Israelis are either a) lying to save face or b) lying because they are so used to lying about everything to begin with.
Why did the chicken cross the road? Because Elon Musk put an AI chip in its head.
or does slashdot seem to be picking sides in this pissing contest? the rockets? all shot down by the worlds best missile defence system. the hackers? all shut out by the worlds best Information Systems collective.
Israels regime seems content to keep producing elegant tactical responses to what amounts to a sustained strategic threat. Is this really even about recognizing the "jewish state of israel" anymore?
Good people go to bed earlier.
This is Israel we're talking about folks... Of course they were going to be able to withstand these attacks. It's an offshoot of Israel's unparalleled second-strike capability mentality. It's all they have.
Can you think of any other country in the world that is so completely and utterly beset by constant regional threats and actually has the resources to do something about it? If there is any country that is going to build proactive and pragmatic redundancy into their national IT infrastructure to protect it from external threats (and do it right), it's Israel. They have a lot more to lose by doing it wrong.
Today, while driving through town, I wound up behind a minivan that had a big sticker on the back. The sticker had an Israeli flag in the middle of it, and under it the quotation from the book of Genesis that reads âoeI will bless those who bless thee.â
I would like to take this time to list my own reasons for thanking and blessing Israel, our lone ally in the Middle East, for everything she has done for us, since I am quite sure most Americans are unaware of just what kind of friend she has been to us.
For extorting from me and my fellow Americans $4,000,000,000.00 a year for the last 4 decades, we bless thee.
For taking our most sophisticated weapons technology and stealing it for yourself without paying the American patent holders, we bless thee.
For taking that high-tech military technology and selling it to our enemies, such as the Russians and Chinese, thus further endangering us, we bless thee.
For using that weaponry in a sustained attack against a United States ship, the USS Liberty, in an attempt to sink her, thus preventing US servicemen from revealing to the rest of the world information concerning the war crimes they witnessed you commit against Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai Desert during the Six Day War, as well as for the purposes of dragging the US into yet another one of your murderous adventures, we bless thee.
For killing 35 and wounding 170 American sailors aboard the USS Liberty, we bless thee.
For bribing the United States government into covering it up, preventing any justice from being done for the benefit of the families of the lost sailors - as well as the American People, we bless thee.
For sending your agents into Egypt and blowing up American buildings for the purpose of blaming the Arabs in an event known as the Lavon Affair, we bless thee.
For sending your agents into Libya during the Reagan administration, and broadcasting radio messages in Arabic that were designed to sound like âoeterrorist cell planningâ so that the US would initiate military strikes against Khadafi in an event known as Operation Trojan Horse, we bless thee.
For withholding information from us concerning the planned attacks against the US Marine barracks in Lebanon, attacks you knew about through your moles in the Islamic world and about which you deliberately refused to warn us in order to further your interests against the Arabs, we bless thee.
For employing Jonathon Pollard, an American serviceman paid to spy for Israel in order to steal even more of our National Security secrets for your parasitic purposes, we bless thee.
For blackmailing President Clinton through one of your sayanim, Monica Lewinsky, in order to prevent a coherent peace program from being pushed forward between yourself and the Palestinian people whom you have brutalized and murdered for the last 50 years, we bless thee.
For breaking every agreement you have made with your Arab neighbors, stealing their land, displacing, murdering, and treating them like the animals you see them as, we bless thee.
For using your agents within the first Bush administration to involve us in the first Gulf War, causing the deaths of American men and women, and exposing our servicemen to whatever bioweapons were and are responsible which have led to Gulf War Syndrome, we bless thee.
For your role in the September 11 attacks in this country, and for blackmailing and bribing the US government into deporting back to Israel the 100 or more intelligence agents that were arrested after the attacks, we bless thee.
For suppressing the information from the American people of your involvement in the September 11 attacks and sending us in the wrong direction in search of answers, we bless thee.
For using one of your agents in the US Army Weapons Lab to steal anthrax and distribute it into our mail system, terrorizing US citizens and killing several in order to blame the Arabs, we bless thee.
For using your agents in the US Government, namely, Rumsfel
With any luck the scattering of crushed pork rinds would render the area selectively uninhabitable to the worst fanatics on both sides (both Jews and Muslims avoid pork). It would be alomost like setting off a dirty bomb but the "contamination" would only affect the hard liners. The hard liners all have to leave since they deeply believe that they can't have pork in any way shape or form and the more reasonable people who remain then sort out the mess.
I'll start grinding pork rinds.
Cheers,
Dave
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty.
Ben
I realize this will hold little / no value for most of the /. readership, as polls I've seen here come back showing overwhelmingly agnostic / atheist beliefs amongst the local populous, but in Christian and Jewish tradition the area of nation of Israel was given to them by God. They have been driven out of the area a few times in history, and have always managed to return eventually. They are also one of the most persecuted people groups on the planet (historically) that has managed to survive, and there is an awful lot of conflict surrounding them and that region.
The reason they are there now is that the British Empire controlled that region at the close of World War II, and gave it to the surviving Jewish people who had lived through the horrors of the Holocaust (and others from around the world). The Israelis don't have a problem living in peace with the Palestinians, and even ceded land to them (which is the Gaza area, where the current issues are happening). However, the leadership that those same Palestinians elected have it in their very charter that all Jews (not just Israeli citizens, but those of Jewish heritage) should be wiped out. Then those same people launch missiles over the border, and yet when Israel responds to defend themselves you complain?
William George
2000 years. Are you certain?
I seem to remember that there was something called Rome 2000 years ago. Muhammad was born @ 570ad. It was in the 7th century ad when militant Islam spread into the area that was before and is now known as Israel. The Dome on the Rock, built in the latter part of the 7th century, was arrogantly established on the Jewish temple mount. Though, I admit that the islamic palestinians have lived there for multiple generations, there is no need to exagerate their history in a lame attemp to make a point.
"For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice" -- God
Now I see the OP has a -1 rating on his comment... I just fed a troll, didn't I? :(
William George
or were there any "attacks" worse than the usual script-kiddie ddos on a poor, unimportant webserver?
bickerdyke
OK, with these sites so confidentiality and integrity of data are destroyed, but we have awesome availability. Let's write this off as money well spent and declare a victory!
Partially correct. The jewish people have been moving into the Palestine and building infra-structure there since the 19th century. Settlers have been immigrating because of the persecution during the 19th and 20th century. They had been buying contiguous land from the Ottomans and Arabs and mantained para-military groups that trained clandestinally under Ottoman and English rule. Tel Aviv was built in the desert, from zero and was founded in 20 April 1909.
So the underlying foundations of the state was being built for a long time. England didn't "give" them a state as much as a college giving you a diploma "gives" you education. There was a lot of hardship and planning involved. The Palmah and other para-military organizations even made some terrorist attemps agains the British targets during their rule as a bid for independence. See the King David Hotel bombing.
Oh fuck right off. The Palestinian leaders were acting like arseholes and trying to kill Jews just for being Jewish before the state of Israel even existed. Haj Amin al-Husseini who was the Grand Mufti (religious leader) of the Palestinians (of Jerusalem to be precise) during the 1940s was buddies with notable people like Hitler, Himmler, and anyone who promised to find a gas chamber for every Jew. He actively encouraged the Germans, and worked to dissuade countries from accepting German Jewish refuges forcing them to return to Germany. ALL BEFORE A JEWISH STATE EXISTED, mother fucker. So don't try to tell me that the Jews started anything.
The Jews were the ones who promised no change in personal property or land or status would take place when Israel was formed, that the status quo shouldn't change, meanwhile their leader(s) and other Arab countries told the Palestinians to get out of the way and to go to the refugee camps while they "pushed the Jews into the sea" with their anti Semitic Arab brotherhood. Now they're sore losers and even the other Arab countries around there won't let them into their own countries because they have so many trouble makers.
Don't you know Egypt has a big fucking wall set up between them and Palestine too? And when the Palestinians knocked part of it down, the Egyptian army pushed them back in a repaired it. Notice the Muslim Brotherhood haven't opened up the border with Gaza any more than Israel since they were elected?
So just shut the fuck up until you learn to think on your own instead of running with the crowd in their nouveau cause du jour which they know nothing about, but will surely fuck some innocent people over to make themselves feel like they have a cause.
I don't give a rat's ass what anyone is. But dirt bags who hide in civilian neighbourhoods and continually fire rockets into other civilian neighbourhoods while screaming how they are so just and hard done by deserve what they get. And the people who don't turn them in deserve it too. You ever think that if these shit bags had ever once tried to be civil there wouldn't be any war there. You know there are a lot of Arabs who live in Israel, vote and even sit in parliament. Jews in the Arab countries have to keep their heads down and not 'rise above themselves'. Get a real education on the subject.
-- I ignore anonymous replies to my comments and postings.
This is the country that invented the first commercial successful state-full firewall ( Checkpoint )
What did they expect?
Remember when Anonymous said they would "out" members of the Mexican cartels? Then the cartels said they'd kill anyone who "outed" them. Then Anonymous cancelled their plans.
Why did the OP mention Anonymous? Just because Isreal is being cyber attacked doesn't mean Anonymous is involved.
It seams that every time someone gets attacked Anonymous gets the blame/credit (depending who's side your on).
From what I know of IT security, 44 million attacks against a high profile target does not seem like an incredible amount. I would have a guess that most large government organizations would repel this number of attacks on a regular basis.
What do they consider an attack? If they are counting every scan or flood then they are over exaggerating the effort.
All the middle east is from both sides. They're related from ancient times too. They never seem to end it. WTF is wrong with them all over there? Go on. Fight your fight until it's over. Keep clear of the rest of us all, keep us out of it. It's not our fight after all. It's yours.
Israel just knows what all of us geniuses here already know: Don't make your defense system available over the public internet, and it won't get hacked. Even Donald Knuth writes his books on a laptop without an internet connection, and it's just a book!
Oh yeah, forgot to mention that the Israelis actually "bought" much of their land from the prior Arab owners.
The issue is, to extreme Islamicists, once land is Muslim it can never be allowed to become un-muslim.
"Nearly all" attacks failing kind of implies that - well, it keeps things down, but a few attacks get through.
So what he's saying is "Yeah, we've got a firewall but it's not perfect. Just like every frickin' company, government and bowling club on the planet."
You just might be right...
Which is nice for a change, usually it's all "leftist" leaning. Guess you know how every other day on Slashdot tends to feel for the rest of us. ;-)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/17/opinion/israels-shortsighted-assassination.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0
It's ignorant to think the history of this conflict is so one sided that Israel has always been the ONLY rational actor and the 'good' guys in this fight. The truth, as evidenced in this article, is much more complicated than that.
But no matter, individuals will continue to pick sides, whether they have a personal dog in this fight and their opinions, right or wrong, won't really count for shit in the long run for one simple reason: Neither the current crop of Israeli leaders nor the Palestinians leaders have any interest in pursuing an actual, workable peace process and will continue to be guided by their self-interests until one side submits. There will come a point where outside supporters, most notable the US, will come to realise that their own self-interests can only suffer through their continued involvement and will eventually declare "a plague on both their houses" and leave them be.
Perhaps Anonymous should try an indirect attach. Instead of attacking israel itself, attack all the suppliers. Stop port operations when a ship is destined to israel with any kind of goods or when products from israel are arriving to a third country. That would certainly at least slow down the flow of money and goods to that genocidal regime
I didn't realize you posted here. Any new Lethal Weapon movies in pre-production?
http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/the-triumph-greater-israel-7438
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/17/opinion/israels-shortsighted-assassination.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0
http://politicalcorrection.org/fpmatters/201110190003
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/two-decades-of-secret-israeli-palestinian-accords-leaked-to-media-worldwide-1.338768
The truth always lies a little somewhere in the middle.
The biggest mistake of the twentieth century was enabling the formation of the modern 'State of Israel' and equating it with divine prophecy and having the same status with biblical Israel. Christian Zionists are the biggest hypocrites for supporting the dead and obsolete way of Judaism. They believe that there is now two peoples of God and discredit their own Gospel of Jesus Christ by saying so. The redemptive act of Christ on the cross is all for naught when you continue to prop up and enable a system that Jesus completed in himself as no other person could have done. For there to be a any national Israel today is to throw away the Kingdom of God that Jesus brought about and is King of, as well as High Priest of, today and forever. Jew are of course free to believe as they wish, but they should also not be hypocrites in asking Christians for help to do something that is antithetical to the core of Christian belief i.e. enable their Judaism.
There is the other side of the argument that we should support the 'State of Israel' because it is a 'bastion of democracy' in the Middle East. To this I would point out that the 'State of Israel' has a parliamentary system, with no constitution, and a unicameral legislature that elects its members using the party-list proportional method that results in persons being appointed before or even after the vote. It has no trial by jury. It has what some countries like South Africa, who ought to know, call an apartheid way of life that is leveled against person both within and without it's borders. It has a socialist foundation for its makeup stemming from the kibbutzim that were used as a foothold in British Mandate Palestine. The kibbutzim were used to create a new 'Israeli' people, separating children from their parents to be raised by proctors that would teach primarily Hebrew as the language, and Israeli nationalist identity to manufacture a people that would not adopt any of the old European languages, habits, mannerisms and traditions from their parents who were immigrantsThere were militias formed even prior to WWII in order to begin taking and securing land for the purpose of forming a new country from the leftovers of the Ottoman empire. There are many questions as to how things could have turned out had Palestine not been the insisted upon destination for the Jewish people, not to mention that even if things hadn't been different, there is no reason they couldn't have just gone back top their homes, and not displaced others from theirs. . The British mandate that was created with the participation of the international community on conditions that there be a two-state solution with Jerusalem as the capital of both states was violated with the midnight declaration of the formation of the 'State of Israel' in 1948. This same international community, which the World Zionist Congress and other Jewish organizations like the Jewish Agency received support from to procure their chief goal, now is considered unwelcome to offer any criticism of the 'State of Israel'. They do not partake in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that the rest of the responsible members of the Nuclear Club abide by. All of this of course doesn't change the fact there are millions of people now in Palestine/'State of Israel' which need to figure something out that is equitable to both 'Israelis' and Palestinians, restitution not being out of the question in my mind. The Jews sought restitution from the world following WWII, why not the displaced Arabs and Palestinians following the Nakba?
They could be. All they need to do acknowledge that Palestine is a legitimate nation. But you know, Likud won't do that. They want to abolish Palestine. Kind of hard for Palestine to leave alone people who want to destroy it.
FTFY
"meaning that they could be replaced by a duplicate site instantly if the original site were compromised."
Instantly? Wow... that is quite a feat - usually someone has to press a button to do that which takes at least a tenth of a second. Instantly really?
Cyber defense systems which I am sure are paid for by the US.
I've never understand the support for Israel in the US. Frankly, I think most of it is astroturfing. Israel is a country which receives plenty of support from the US. What does the US receive that makes them our Allies? The answer, some intelligence so that we can fight their wars. Now why would any American support sending US tax dollars and support to a country that provides us virtually nothing? Why would any American feel compelled to join the military to fight Israels wars?
Simple. Media and political brainwashing. Your politicians are paid to give your tax dollars to Israel. That is why they are elected. Because Zionists moneybomb all US politicians that serve Israel.
If you're an American supporting Israel you are nothing more than a complete and utter fool.
All religious and geopolitical problems solved in one hour or less. And still plenty of time to get Gangnam Style over 800 million views.
Man, with 40 millions cyber-terrorists to catch, I surely hope the cyber-defense department is well funded... Do we have to repeat such numbers when they are obviously irrelevant? There have obviously not been 40 millions different attacks. They have probably counted the number of connections from a DDoS attempt. By putting such a number here, we have strictly no informations on the number of attacks. It could be a single DDoS so far as we know...
The Wise adapts himself to the world. The Fool adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the Fool.
A totally secure cyber infrastructure is like a totally secure home: just not very pleasant to live with.
Sure there is strength in numbers and Anonymous has made great efforts to show the generally ignorant majority some great injustices in the world, but some of the more seasoned internet users will surely remember that Anonymous as a "hacker collective" originally stemmed from a number of anarchic 4channers capable of little more than poorly organized DDoS attacks. Does anybody remember zf0's infamous takedown and publishing of pre-lulzsec Anonymous in their 4th e-zine or is that too underground by nowadays' standards?
Tim Pool on the Israeli/Palestinian internet war.
However, the leadership that those same Palestinians elected have it in their very charter that all Jews (not just Israeli citizens, but those of Jewish heritage) should be wiped out. Then those same people launch missiles over the border, and yet when Israel responds to defend themselves you complain?
I find it EXTREMELY disturbing that the anti semitism in the US is reaching dangerously high levels (again, sigh!).
it seems 'cool' to dis jews, these days. definitely on the rise again for some reason.
how many times do they need to keep fighting to survive against the collective world's hatred of them?
and WHY, going back thousands of years, is the world so bent on destroying jews?
I just don't get it. I really don't. are people so in need of a boogeyman that they drag out the old jew-hatred time and time again to make themselves feel superior?
I don't like the direction this country is going in, in this regard. its cool and hip to attack the jewish culture and put the blame on them for all the mid-east's problems.
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"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
Go look at idfblog.com, and hella lots others
real anons - he ones that don't call themselves anons - they're just anons
...they must surely be using windows servers with iis :)
It is actually one of the interesting things about the world we live in which make me more sure of my beliefs - it, and the general conflict the Middle East seems to always be in, is a further evidence that something is special about the people groups and places involved.
William George
Er, colloquially perhaps.
The Treaty of Paris, ratified by the British Parliament in 1784, in the first article "[acknowledges] the United States to be a free, sovereign and independent nation, and that the British Crown and all heirs and successors relinquish claims to the Government, property, and territorial rights of the same, and every part thereof."
Of course, we had another war about 30 years later to "clarify" that position, but that's the official word.
Back during the Cold War, the USSR went to lengths to convince the world that it was near-invincible & thriving; when horrible things happened like Chernobyl, even their own citizens were told that everything was fine and the government had it all under control. Being honest, showing any weakness, would have been like issuing an invite to attack them -- it was a big shock when we all finally got to see beyond the propaganda.
Likewise, there's no way that Israel is going to admit it even if serious security-trashing damage is caused by hackers. Telling the world of damage would let hackers (some of which might be working for an enemy) know of a weak point, give massive cred to whichever group had succeeded, and encourage others to gain fame the same way. Did anyone really expect them Israel's leaders to not consider that?
Now mostly at Usenet:comp.misc & SoylentNews.org (it's made of people!)
real hackers....we aren't getting involved ....both sides are wrong....and script kiddies are idiots especially govt ones.
... the mossad uses Macs.
2012:
New Linux Rootkit Emerges:
https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/new-linux-rootkit-emerges-112012
"A new Linux rootkit has emerged and researchers who have analyzed its code and operation say that the malware appears to be a custom-written tool designed to inject iframes into Web sites and drive traffic to malicious sites for drive-by download attacks. The rootkit is designed specifically for 64-bit Linux systems."
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'FIRST ever' Linux, Mac OS X-only password sniffing virus spotted:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/29/linux_mac_trojan/
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Medicaid hack update: 500,000 records and 280,000 SSNs stolen:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/medicaid-hack-update-500000-records-and-280000-ssns-stolen/11444
So, what's dts.utah.gov running everyone?
LINUX (and yes, it got HACKED) -> http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=dts.utah.gov
What's health.utah.gov running too??
YOU GUESSED IT: LINUX AGAIN -> http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=health.utah.gov
* Ah, yes - see the YEARS OF /. "BS" FUD is CRUMBLING AROUND THE PENGUINS EARS HERE & 2012's starting out just like 2011 did below!
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2011:
KERNEL.ORG COMPROMISED - The Cracking of Kernel.org: (that's VERY bad - do you trust it now?)
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/08/31/2321232/Kernelorg-Compromised
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Linux.com pwned in fresh round of cyber break-ins:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/12/more_linux_sites_down/
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Mysql.com Hacked, Made To Serve Malware:
http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/09/26/2218238/mysqlcom-hacked-made-to-serve-malware
What's that site running? You guessed it - Linux -> http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=mysql.com
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London Stock Exchange serving malware:
http://slashdot.org/submission/1484548/London-Stock-Exchange-Web-Site-Serving-Malware
(I mean hey - NOT ONLY DID LINUX FALL FLAT ON ITS FACE less than a few minutes into the job http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/02/19/0147232/London-Stock-Exchange-Price-Errors-Emerged-At-Linux-Launch, & crash not only ONCE, but TWICE there? You see "Linux 'fine security'" in motion @ the LSE too!)
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DUQU ROOTKIT/BOTNET BEING SERVED FROM LINUX SERVERS:
http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/11/30/1610228/duqu-attackers-managed-to-wipe-cc-servers
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Linux Foundation, Linux.com Sites Down To Fix Security Breach:
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/09/11/1325212/linux-foundation-linuxcom-sites-down-to-fix-security-breach
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Linux's showing in CA's breached recently too? Ok: (very, Very, VERY BAD for ecommerce, online shopping, banking, etc./et al)
true story.... the founder of hamas his son has stated "The biggest terrorist is the God of the Quran."
HAMAS SON: ISLAM IS A RELIGION THAT TEACHES PEOPLE TO KILL
Islam is not a religion of peace. The biggest terrorist is the God of the Quran.
This is a statement of Mosab Hassan Yousef, who helped Israel’s security forces in their fight against the Islamic militant group Hamas.
I know this is very dangerous and this will offend many people. The more you follow the steps of the prophet of Islam and the God of Islam, the more you get close to being a terrorist.
Yousef got a story to tell in his new book Son of Hamas.
To be honest with you, being killed is not the worst thing that can happen, he said Wednesday in an interview with The Associated Press. If they want to do kill me let them do it, and they will be responsible for my blood..
In his memoir, Yousef, the 32-year-old son of a Hamas founder, claims he was one of the Shin Bet security agency’s best assets and was dubbed The Green Prince, a reference to his Hamas pedigree and the Islamists’ signature green color.
During his 50-minute interview, for which he arrived with armed security, Yousef criticized Hamas leaders including political chief Khaled Meshaal. He lashed out at Hamas, saying the organization lives in the Middle Ages.
And he hurled his most inflammatory comments at Islam, which he called a religion that teaches people to kill.
Source: Jerusalem Post
My comment:
It is amazing to see that Christian leaders have started to defend Islam. While Muslim converts, who know the “god of Islam”, warns against the religion they once practiced.
Mossad is not to be fucked with. They are the kings of deception and espionage and have a decades long history of such shenanigans. If I were Anonymous, I would be worried I'd end up dead in a ditch like some of those Iranian nuclear scientists.
Anonymous Cowards sure are great at cowardice.
Israel's excellence in IT, IT security and intelligence in general is due in a large part to some first-rate technical schools (and STEM focused high-school) along with the automatic conscription of a large part of the populace for a few years. After using their mad IT skills to avoid combat branches of the military, they then go on to join the workforce with disciplined compliance with standards, best practices and real-world experience.
Answer that please - then, "tell us another one" (that book's so big already, & only a "portent of things to come"... getting "NuKeD" almost DAILY, lol...).
* No more hiding behind "security-by-obscurity" on that smartphone is there?
That server marketshare's also starting to "show its tell" as well, see link below, & "drink it in, & digest it", along with eating your words flavored with the bitter taste of "SELF-defeat", & your foot in your mouth along with it...
Trust me: Based on that alone - You Penguins do NOT want to see "the day of the Linux desktop" on a PC, ever... or, it'll be like it is on smartphones.
APK
P.S.=> The "Linux 'security-threater' 2011 - 2012 here:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3263923&cid=42057067
Always elicits these "vain protests" from the biggest "FUD" spreaders in the cosmos: "the 'Pro-*NIX /. troll'" - who for YEARS here said "linux = secure, windows != secure" type b.s. nigh constantly!
To you, & those like you ... refer to the link above, & what I ask as a question above here - answer it... "eat your words", troll!
... apk
Reply with the answer to the question here -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3263923&cid=42078237
(To a VERY simple question too, no less, I get "trollish evasive maneuvers"? Please... lol!)
APK
P.S.=> So, as you can all see (to those reading) - The "Pro-*NIX Troll", when backed into a corner having to answer a simple question that will DUST him? Will run from simple questions, every single time - hahahaha...
... apk
Finally, he admits it - and what happens to ANDROID (linux) weekly, now that it can't "hide" via "security-by-obscurity" anymore on smartphones like it does on PC Desktops?
* That's RIGHT kids - you guessed it -> Weekly exploits....
APK
P.S.=> So much for YEARS of "Linux = Secure, Windows != Secure" from FOOLS LIKE YOURSELF here on /., eh?
Your "FUD" campaigns are crumbling around your EARS, like all "FUD" always does in the end...
... apk
Crutchy finally admitted it. It's also no secret it gets exploited weekly.
You see it in the news constantly. So many examples I can't even BEGIN to put them all together & reply quickly in fact, lol...
(E.G.-> I have a SMALL partial list of them only spanning roughly 150++ of them in fact... as "examples thereof" & everyone SEES THEM ANYHOW on sites like this!)
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As to "the world's servers" (since Linux has roughly a 50/50 split share of that in the Fortune 100-500)?
I post data from 2011-2012!
Data that shows your days of 'security-by-obscurity' are OVER on servers, just as it is on smartphones, troll: (as is the outrageous "FUD" of "linux = secure, windows != secure" you heard here on /. for ages):
2012:
New Linux Rootkit Emerges:
https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/new-linux-rootkit-emerges-112012
"A new Linux rootkit has emerged and researchers who have analyzed its code and operation say that the malware appears to be a custom-written tool designed to inject iframes into Web sites and drive traffic to malicious sites for drive-by download attacks. The rootkit is designed specifically for 64-bit Linux systems."
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'FIRST ever' Linux, Mac OS X-only password sniffing virus spotted:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/29/linux_mac_trojan/
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Medicaid hack update: 500,000 records and 280,000 SSNs stolen:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/medicaid-hack-update-500000-records-and-280000-ssns-stolen/11444
So, what's dts.utah.gov running everyone?
LINUX (and yes, it got HACKED) -> http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=dts.utah.gov
What's health.utah.gov running too??
YOU GUESSED IT: LINUX AGAIN -> http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=health.utah.gov
* Ah, yes - see the YEARS OF /. "BS" FUD is CRUMBLING AROUND THE PENGUINS EARS HERE & 2012's starting out just like 2011 did below!
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2011:
KERNEL.ORG COMPROMISED - The Cracking of Kernel.org: (that's VERY bad - do you trust it now?)
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/08/31/2321232/Kernelorg-Compromised
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Linux.com pwned in fresh round of cyber break-ins:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/12/more_linux_sites_down/
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Mysql.com Hacked, Made To Serve Malware:
http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/09/26/2218238/mysqlcom-hacked-made-to-serve-malware
What's that site running? You guessed it - Linux -> http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=mysql.com
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London Stock Exchange serving malware:
http://slashdot.org/submission/1484548/London-Stock-Exchange-Web-Site-Serving-Malware
(I mean hey - NOT ONLY DID LINUX FALL FLAT ON ITS FACE less than a few minutes into the job http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/02/19/0147232/London-Stock-Exchange-Price-Errors-Emerged-At-Linux-Launch, & crash not only ONCE, but TWICE there? You see "Linux 'fine security'" in motion @ the LSE to
Many eyeballs on open SORES code works the other way too. It's far easier to step-trace actual sourcecode for vulnerabilities than it is disassembling closed source code to do so, or using "fuzzers" on it to do so.
Now you try to tell us that all the problems Android (a linux since it uses a linux kernel) are "just nothing", right?
Wake up, smell the coffee troll:
It's only showing you "a portent of things to come" (not that it EVER will, since the year of Linux desktop is never going to happen and you know it)!
Besides - you do NOT want to see "year of the linux desktop" since if you do? Android shows you just what will happen, albeit on PC desktops instead of smartphones. Just as how this year Linux servers (and BSD ones) have been broken into & hacked since it's got about a 50/50 split over servers out there in the Fortune 100/500...
HOWEVER:
This was the worst of your b.s. though, in you being caught in the act using TOR to stalk/harass others on slashdot via your multiple registered accounts everyone here knows you use, troll -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3264195&cid=42081329
APK
P.S.=> Funniest part of all is, she SHUT RIGHT UP, after I posted her own words to "do her in" in that link above, lol...
Yes - it is always the same - women *try* to "play smart" in a MAN's WORLD, & end up with EGG ON THEIR FACES, lol...
... apk
Facts will elicit "FoaMiNg-@-The-MouTh" ravings like (lol) 'CruTcHy''s, here -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3263923&cid=42084751
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PRIME EXAMPLE QUOTED EXCERPT:
"links to more of your ignorant jibberish comments and stories by tabloids who have no idea what they're on about" - by crutchy (1949900) on Saturday November 24, @09:36PM (#42084751)
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Oh yes, that's right everyone - "hot off the presses":
ONLY (lol) 'CruTcHy' - "the master of ALL things mystical" is an authority figure to be believed! His word, is law (lol, not).
NewsFlash/New News/Clue: That list of mine's just more than you've got & can handle, and it makes me laugh everytime I post those Linux screwups in security 2011-2012 (just to see this "fuddish" attempt @ 'spin' type of "ReAcTioN' from you or those like you, lol)...
APK
P.S.=> Give us a break, 'CruTcHy'...
... apk
The "FoAmiNg-@-The-MouTh 'ReAcTioN'" I just got outta you? Priceless!!!
Yes I read them - the links I posted show security blunders for Linux in a variety of roles all thru 2011-present in late 2012... you can't handle it, since your era of outrageous "fud" is over!
* You're now showing us "your tell", & that You are caught with your "FUD" spreading Pro-*NIX pants down, unable to defend vs. facts in those articles' facts they extoll on Linux security blunders in 2011-2012!
(That's right - No more security by obscurity to hide behind is there (not on smartphones, ANDROID a Linux? Nuked daily..., & not on servers, where it's about a 50/50 split Windows vs. Linux in the Fortune 100-500 for various tasks)).
APK
P.S.=> 'CruTcHy' (lol), listen: You FAIL... Accept it!
... apk
i don't think you've read them, because they don't show "security blunders for Linux"
:)
keep going though... this is some funny shit
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3263923&cid=42057067
* Per my subject-line above - You may not LIKE those facts, but facts ARE FACTS, nonetheless...
APK
P.S.=> You aren't capable of matching wits with me (or accomplishments in the art & science of computing that I did while YOU WERE STILL IN DIAPERS I strongly wager, that was established LONG ago)...
... apk
From recent history spanning 2011-2012, from "invulnerable Linux" (NOT) -> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3263923&cid=42057067
* No more "hiding" behind 'security-by-obscurity' (lack of widespread usage/marketshare) on:
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1.) Smartphones for ANDROID Linux, getting devastated nearly every week no less...
OR
2.) On servers (since it is about a 50/50 split with Windows & Linux on servers in the Fortune 100/500 roughly).
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(LASTLY - there's certainly NO MORE ROOM FOR "FUD" regarding Linux from /. after those, along the lines of what we heard here for YEARS of "linux = secure, windows != secure" )
QUESTION: How "SECURE" is Linux in the link above? Hmmm??
APK
P.S.=> You can *try* to put your b.s. "FUD" type "spin" on those BAD OCCURENCES on Linux, but it's the same as polishing a turd or putting perfume on a pig - still a turd & still a pig!
The FUNNIEST PART is, ANDROID is just a "portent of things to come", & it is also WHY You Penguins NEVER WAN TO SEE OR HAVE A "YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP" - you'll be annihilated weekly, and you KNOW it...
... apk
Left ping -f on...
"Read 'em & weep, 'CruTcHy' (lol), per my subject-line above:
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http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3258205&cid=42014943
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3258205&cid=42016015
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3258205&cid=42014957
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3258205&cid=42014957
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3258205&cid=42015649
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(So much for "bugs in my code"... the proof's in the pudding it runs perfectly above & that's only a TINY SAMPLING thereof!)
* Poor little NOOB 'CruTcHy', dwelling forever in his 'mediocrity', never achieving ANYTHING of worth via his alleged "professional works" in programming... lol!
APK
P.S.-> Did you get that last part, 'CruTcHy' (lmao)? Good... lol...
... apk