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."

Comments

The sure are great at Propaganda

[Anonymous Coward]

That's for certain.

Congratulations Israel

[Spy Handler]

you have won the cyber security warz. Now how about being a gracious winner and stop oppressing the Palestinians in real life?

Re:Congratulations Israel

[TheGratefulNet]

who's attacking whom, again?

who sends rockets into soverign territory with the SOLE intention of harming ANYONE inside, civilian or otherwise?

who has walked away from the bargaining table 100% of the time?

who has, as its main goal in life, the complete destruction of all jews (not just israelis, look at the hamas charter if you are not sure.)

now, troll, go back under the rock you hide behind.

then again:

The time will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews (and kill them); until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! there is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him! This will not apply to the Gharqad, which is a Jewish tree (cited by Bukhari and Muslim).

Israel has nuclear weapons.

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Israel has nuclear weapons.

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

Soviet Union defeated Nazi Germany.

Plain, simple, true.

Like WWI, US scooped glory and declared spoils, with the least to lose, and at the smallest risk taken.

Re:Israel has nuclear weapons.

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

Parent is flamebait?

More Russian lives were lost at Stalingrad, than in the whole US war effort.

More Russian lives were lost at Leningrad, than in the whole US war effort.

The myths we hold to be "history" distort our entire perspective on seeing the present world clearly.