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Urgent Notice to Debka Readers
From: [email protected]
Sent: Sat 1/03/09 9:18 PM
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DEBKAfile's two sites in English and Hebrew have been under attack since 19:00 local time. We are doing our best to restore the service as soon as possible. Please check the site periodically.
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Originally posted by computerwiz32
It got hacked... There was a DOS attack that happened to it.
It was hacked if you want to call it a hack. I personally as a programmer won't say a DOS is a hack. It's more of a internet line clog.
You said Isreali reporters right??? and we have a war going on with them.
It sounds like some hackers are really upset with jewish people or Isreali people in general.
Most hackers don't live by any rules. They will hate you because you are you.
They will make any excuse to hack you. So I would assume that the site was attacked because it was Isreali reporters who run that site.
this is my guess. I checked the site with pinging it and many other tools. All I came up with is that it's attacked by a hacker.
Israeli forces tightens siege on Gaza City, deploy at Philadelphi to block Hamas' weapons route
DEBKAfile Special Report
January 4, 2009, 4:50 PM (GMT+02:00)
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January 4, 2009, 3:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
DEBKAfile's two sites in English and Hebrew came under a massive cyber attack on our servers at the moment Israeli ground forces crossed into the Gaza Strip Saturday night, Jan. 3. The attackers tried and failed to block and replace our content. We did our utmost to restore service as quickly as possible and return to full operation.
DEBKAfile thanks our many visitors for their patience.
Domain hacked in protest to ongoing Gaza offensive Friday January 02, 2009 Israeli sources reported on Friday that an Israeli domain server was hacked on Friday and the main pages of major Israeli websites were replaced with images of the casualties of the ongoing Israeli offensive against the Gaza Strip. Some of the hacked websites were the Israeli Bank Discount, a website for weather forecast and the Israeli Ynet News, one of the main Israeli news websites. The main page of the Ynet News was replaced by a black page which included four pictures; the first picture included a large number of bodies of Palestinians or Lebanese who were killed in Israeli offensives, the second pictures was of detainees at Abu Ghraib, all forced nude and forced over each other, the third picture was an image of an Israeli religious man carrying a poster which reads Ending Zionism = Peace, and the fourth picture was the historic map of Palestine which has several images of illegal land grab and annexation by Israeli through different historical periods. The hackers also played a song about Gaza in the background. The website was fixed several hours later and the Ynet News managed to gain control over it again. Furthermore, the hackers also controlled an Israeli Weather Forecast website. It was revealed later on that the hackers are from Turkey and that they hacked into the websites in retaliation to the ongoing Israeli attacks against the Gaza Strip. They left messages in Turkish and English stating "You will be cursed in the electronic world", and other messages such as "to the Palestinian people, your Muslim brothers salute you… be patient…we in Turkey support you.." Meanwhile, Israeli Ynet News, reported that an Islamic group in Morocco hacked into The Net domain registration system and hijacked several prominent domain names in Israel such as the Ynetnews.com and Bank Discount. The Ynet News added that the hackers obtained a password which granted them access to the server "which updates and "translates" the websites' IP addresses into a Domain Name Service; and change the IP's numeral values, effectively rerouting users away from the original websites". The Ynet added that the hackers did not hack into actual websites but redirected the users to a "hostile" website, while other hackers managed to access original websites. Also, Ynet reported that a group in Morocco, calling itself "Team Evil" was behind attacking the domain name. The same groups previously hacked into other Israeli brands such as Cellcom, Shilav and BlueSquare, the Ynet said and added that the server which hosts the hackers’ website is based in Japan. Domain hacked in protest to ongoing Gaza offensive author Friday January 02, 2009 22:31author by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies Report this post to the editors Israeli sources reported on Friday that an Israeli domain server was hacked on Friday and the main pages of major Israeli websites were replaced with images of the casualties of the ongoing Israeli offensive against the Gaza Strip.