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Israeli Rightist Cyber-Vandals Take Down New Israel Fund Site in DoS Attack

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5 Responses to “Israeli Rightist Cyber-Vandals Take Down New Israel Fund Site in DoS Attack”

medawar says:

August 7, 2010 at 7:31 AM

If the attack from Texas interfered with anybody’s legitimate attempts to carry on their normal business, the Texas Rangers have a legal mandate to investigate.

The rightists almost certainly do not own the computers used to launch the attacks themselves: those will be infected botnets, but they probably do own the machines used to scan for targets and send instructions to launch the attacks. It’s a bit unlikely that this is their only illegal activity.

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- uncle joe mccarthy says:
  
  August 7, 2010 at 7:47 PM
  
  depends where the server is hosted and where the attacks originate from
  
  good hackers use proxies, and unless commerce is halted, officials dont have the time or the resources to go after them
  
  their purpose is to be a nuisance and to cause the hosts to spend time and money on increasing security….which they again quickly learn how to hack
  
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  - Richard Silverstein says:
    
    August 7, 2010 at 11:26 PM
    
    Not completely true. I have some folks who are trying to penetrate the haze & learn something about the perpetrators.
    
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Dave Boxthorn says:

August 7, 2010 at 7:57 AM

Lebanon?

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- Richard Silverstein says:
  
  August 7, 2010 at 9:05 PM
  
  And Jordan too. Probably done that way on purpose. I’m sure as Medawar says the computers were bots controlled somehow from Israeli computers.
  
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