Pro-Palestinian hackers bring down Haaretz Hebrew website
In a Twitter message, Anonymous Palestine claimed responsibility for the attack: 'haaretz.co.il Tango Down :)'
By Oded Yaron, Dan Even and DPAPro-Palestinian hackers brought down Haaretz's Hebrew website on Wednesday, after several Israeli websites were targeted earlier in the day.
Haaretz Hebrew website was brought down in a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, as a cyber war between pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian hackers continued.
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Anonymous hackers group logo. |
In a Twitter message, Anonymous Palestine claimed responsibility for the attack: "haaretz.co.il Tango Down :)".
The hackers promised to continue the attack on Israeli websites and in fact, several hours later, the website of Israel Hayom newspaper was also paralyzed, with the hackers tweeting a similar message, "israelhayom.co.il tango down!"
The attacks saturated the websites' servers with information such that it could not respond to legitimate internet traffic.
The websites of two Israeli hospitals were also brought down earlier Wednesday.
According to the Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, the Mossad identified multiple attempts to break into the hospital’s website, similar to previous cyber attacks on websites of important Israeli institutions.
As a result, Sheba’s website was paralyzed for several hours, saying that its security system is “attempting to identify the source of attack the problem in order to block threatening activity.”
The Sheba website, as well as that of Assouta Medical Center, Tel Aviv were able to be fully recovered, however, the extent of the damage caused to the patients’ personal files has yet to be seen.
Also on Wednesday, the website of the Israel Festival was brought down. Pro-Palestinian hackers wrote "Free Palestine" in several parts of the site, and featured an image of the Israeli and American flag burning.
The cyber war kicked off in early January, when a hacker calling himself "OxOmar" published online the credit card details of thousands of Israelis, after breaking into what he said were more than 80 Israeli servers.
He said he was then joined by a group calling itself Nightmare, and went on to paralyze several Israeli websites, including that of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and Israel's El-Al International Airlines.
Pro-Israel hackers, for their part, published the log-in details of 20,000 Arab Facebook users, and said they had taken down websites in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
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Pro-Palestinian hackers' message on the Israel Festival website, January 25, 2012. |
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Attack Haaretz then, why not take down Jerusalem Post?? you might find The right and the hardcore left agree on something, they all disagree with Haaretz... But surely, we can leave hospitals alone Great job children, give yourselves a pat on the back, and remember, lost ime is not found again
this is almost laughable.
Last I heard was Bibi saying Haretz and NY times as the biggest enemy ?
They were aiming for a pro-Israel newspaper and missed.
I'm sure that if they continue to do this the international community, including Israel, will realize that they deserve a state of their own. No need for military victories, no need for peace talks, just hack a few sites and you'll get your independence. How pathetic can this national movement get?
Here is a clue. Moshe Arens and Israel Harel will not have their articles featured in a left wing media outlet. Haaretz is certerist. Right wing supporters of Israel are so used to their right wing rags in which every article varies from right wing to extreme right wing, that they think that any media that has any left wing content at all must be left wing. The fact is that "cyber terrorism" has much in common with ordinary terrorism. They will strike where they can make the biggest splash. Haaretz has a much higher international profile than any of Israel's home grown right wing rags.
Me...I'm pro-Israel and love to read Haaretz in order to keep my faith alive in all you anti-Jewish and anti- Israel posters. I love it when Israel gets your "goat"
Vittorio Arrigoni, Juliano Mer Khamis, HaAretz. They all share something: they worked long and hard to support the "Palestinian" narrative of lies - and the Palis turned on them, their best friends. Some people never learn...
When payback comes, it will be in a rather punishing form. Hackers are never anonymous ever. Someone always knows who is who. Dont swim in any pools or teh ocean. The Mossad sharks might get you
At least no one has been killed! Better this elecronic war than thousand of deds.
Merely a case of friendly fire. They brought down their own.
we are ALL Anonymous : )
to score another own goal
Another case of Palestinians biting the hand that's trying to help them.
Retaliation for the children of Palestine
Ironic as HAARETZ is a leftist paper very critical of the Israeli Government.
Ha'aretz makes no sense as a target. Are you sure the claim is valid? Why wouldn't they have graffitied Ha'aretz's front page?
Bringing down Hospital sites, never minding its consequences, reveals once more and from a new and different angle, the true nature of Palestinian "peacefull intentions".
Time for another Cast Lead. Let's see if we can kill twice as many defenseless innocents then we did last time. If you think dropping white phosphorus bombs was something you ain't seen anything yet.
They're animals who can't distinguish between friend and foe, or right and wrong.
Show them what we got!!!!
I would count as an attempted murder of civilians! Is that Ashton lady still in the region? Make an official complaint!
enjoyed it.
Either these hackers don't read Haaretz or they are not pro-Palestinian.
They choose one so leftist that Israel's Prime minister went as far as calling it an enemy of the state? What exactly is the logic behind this?
Hope, Lefties are able to understand messages.
I dearly hope that will teach Haaretz to be as bit less "loving" and "understanding" toward the "poor, harassed" Palestinians! What did you think which paper they would attack first out fo their mentality? Naturally the most "liberal" ones no matter if they are defending them! Try to stay to Israel needs in future instead to the Pal's ones!
So far the cyber attacks on Israel have been relatively minor. They will be annoying to Israeli right wingers who have a tendency to become hysterical and over react when any Palestinian has the temerity to attack any Israeli target. This is true even if the target is the supposedly left wing Haaretz. The Israeli right wing will go to (cyber) war for Haaretz not because they love Haaretz but beacuse they love attacking the Palestinians. It should be noted that the targets of attacks of both sides are not the perpetrators of the attacks. They are merely convenient victims. This is the old game of suicide bombings converted to cyber warfare with the Israelis fully engaged as well.
We would call that a self-goal.
So telling.
You don't want Mossad to plant a magnetic bomb on your car, now do you? It's funny that they think this is a victory somehow. They are too scared to do anything in real life. Shutting down websites isn't going to do anything.
Are you saying that they should be planting bombs?
Why is anonymous brining down a pro-Palestinian website? Have they ever read Haaretz?