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Last update - 21:38 27/04/2008 Men who hacked into Israel Bank site were motivated by Islamism By Guy Grimland, Haaretz Correspondent Tags: Bank of Israel, internet  Contrary to previous reports, the computer hackers who commandeered the Bank of Israel Web site early Friday and filled it with virtual anti-Israel graffiti in Arabic, are nationals of various Arab countries and not solely Algerian. The hackers belong to a group called MaXi32, which is considered one of the world's leading groups of computer hackers. "The hackers who attacked the Bank of Israel site were motivated by ideology," said Moran Zavdi, the chairman of Israeli internet security company Securevision, who is in contact with the hackers. Advertisement Zavdi said that the hackers are motivated by their zealous Islamism and believe that anyone who does not believe in the Prophet Mohammed is a valid target. Zavdi also believes that one of the hackers is able to read Hebrew and follows the Israeli media reports on the cyber-attack. "Hackers break into hundreds of sites every day," said Zavdi. "In most of the cases the attacks take advantage of simple breaches in security. In some cases, like attacks on high profile Israel government sites, the attacks are more complicated." For this reason, Zavdi noted, Denmark, in which cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed were published, is one of the countries most frequently targeted by these hackers. Web surfers who attempted to access the Bano of Israel site on Thursday were met with Arabic scrawlings that the anonymous vandals placed on the site. The Bank of Israel has taken down the site until the glitch could be fixed. Bank of Israel spokesamn Dr. Yossi Saadon said the matter "is being taken care of." "The bank's information systems and content systems are separate, and the damage only affects external web users. There is no possibility of damage being inflicted on the Bank of Israel's internal content," he added. Bookmark to del.icio.us   Survivors and pioneers Yad Vashem exhibit shows how Holocaust survivors helped shape Israel's identity Researching bacon Lahav's pig breeding gained widespread notoriety because of its legal loophole.   1.   islamist proving once again their nothing but liers and thiefs 21:49  |  terrornator 27/04/08   2.   "one of the world`s leading groups of computer hackers" 22:08  |  Chanalau, Tova 27/04/08   3.   The Chanalau Phenomenon swore yesterday that Muslims didn`t do it 00:10  |  Genuine Tosefta 28/04/08   4.   The racist Chanalau Phenomenon considers Arabs to be inferior 00:15  |  Genuine Tosefta 28/04/08   5.   touche 01:15  |  David James Vickery 28/04/08   6.   the Anonymus one 06:30  |  the Anonymus one 28/04/08   7.   Recently the IMF acknowledge West Bank... 07:07  |  The Archives 28/04/08   8.   The Archives, my guess is 17:24  |  Genuine Tosefta 28/04/08

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