A propaganda war is being waged on the internet between supporters of the Israeli and Palestinian sides in the current conflict in the Gaza Strip.Activists have turned to defacing websites, taking over computers, and shutting down Facebook groups.US Military sites, Nato, and an Israeli Bank have all been targeted.Experts have warned users to be on the lookout for phishing emails and webmasters to ensure their servers are secure.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7827293.stmIsrael-Palestine conflict spills into cyberspace
The conflict between Palestine and Israel is not limited to the real world. A group of programmers working under the name “Help Israel Win” has developed a piece of software that lets people devote part of their computer’s processing power to attacking pro-Hamas websites.In the conflict, the majority of hacking groups are anti-Israeli. At Iran’s Festival of Digital Media last year, a Hamas group, the Digital Intifada, offered a prize worth about £1,300 for anyone who successfully disabled an Israeli website perceived as being “hostile to the Palestinian people”. Help Israel Win itself has been forced to change its website repeatedly over the past week after facing continuous denial of service (DoS) attacks.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jan/15/israel-palestine-online-conflict
Gaza crisis spills onto the web
A propaganda war is being waged on the internet between supporters of the Israeli and Palestinian sides in the current conflict in the Gaza Strip.