Posted on 09/06/2011 11:22:40 AM PDT by Nachum
Amid the current diplomatic impasse between Ankara and Jerusalem, Turkish hackers hijacked some 350 Israeli websites on Sunday evening, launching a Domain Name System (DNS) attack on dozens of other websites as well.
Israeli IT analysts said Tuesday the DNS hijacking is likely to be, in fact, a "test-run" ahead of a major attack on Israeli domains.
Visitors to some of the sites were diverted to a page declaring it was “World Hackers Day."
At least seven high-profile websites outside Israel were also hijacked, including those of The Telegraph, Acer, National Geographic, UPS and Vodafone.
Hackers calling themselves the "TurkGuvenligi group" claimed they had done the cyber-attack. TurkGuvenligi translates as "Turkish security."
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
Time for Israel to use that new technology. Like Scotty, let them ‘beam’ some explosives over the high-speed data links and blow Turkish computers to smithereens.
I’m not sure how good the attacking Turkish hackers are, but the Israelis have a thriving pool of computer IT techies.
This may be another Seven Day War in cyberspace.
If the Israelis decide to bring it, it will be a Seven Minute War.
Just for the record, 1967 saw a Six Day War, not a Seven Day War (they rested on the seventh day).
Turks are begging for a stuxnet.
Our NATO ally?
After Libya. Israel?
Sorry, I thought they spent the 7th day sorting out Arab prisoners of war.
Yeah, I think Turkey loses this one.
And I'm not sure that the Turks would even notice a cyber attack. I would drop a few bombs on the Turkish Information Ministy in Ankara to get their attention.
ML/NJ
“...You don’t tug on Superman’s cape...”
Turkish High School computer geeks vs Israeli MIT computer scientists...pftpftpft...stupid muzzies. They never learn.
I think we need to look at this another way. Israel probably has already tracked these idiots and they will soon be floating face down in the Med.
I think we need to look at this another way. Israel probably has already tracked these idiots and they will soon be floating face down in the Med.
The Mossad has indeed been shown to be fairly effective over the years...
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