Arthur Fuller
fuller.artful at gmail.com
Wed Jan 18 06:55:14 CST 2012
This is from slashdot: "The NY Times describes what may be the beginning of an actual cyberwar between a pro-Palestinian group and Israeli companies, specifically El Al and the Tel Aviv stock exchange. From the article: 'A hacker identifying himself as oxOmar, already notorious for posting the details of more than 20,000 Israeli credit cards, sent an overnight warning to Israel's Ynet news outlet that a group of pro-Palestinian cyberattackers called Nightmare planned to bring down the sites in the morning.' Though the article is skimpy on technical details, the group appears to have engaged merely in a DDOS attack. Hamas praised the attack as opening 'a new resistance front against Israel.' Is this the first acknowledged cyberwar?" Lots of S-F writers have been predicting the union of politicos and hackers. Looks like the future is Now. -- Arthur Cell: 647.710.1314 Prediction is difficult, especially of the future. -- Niels Bohr