ISRAELI GOVERNMENT WEBSITES HACKED

ISRAELI GOVERNMENT WEBSITES  HACKED BY THE HACKER

Israeli government web sites hacked  and attack by hackers.More than 44 million hacking attempts have been made on Israeli government web sites since Wednesday when Israel began its Gaza air strikes, the government said on Sunday.

Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz said just one hacking attempt was successful on a site he did not want to name, but it was up and running after 10 minutes of downtime.Typically, there are a few hundred hacking attempts a day on Israeli sites, the ministry said. Attempts on defence-related sites have been the highest, while 10 million attempts have been made on the site of Israel's president, 7 million on the Foreign Ministry and 3 million on the site of the prime minister. A ministry spokesman said while the attacks have come from around the world, most have been from Israel and the Palestinian territories."The ministry's computer division will continue to block the millions of cyber attacks," Steinitz said. "We are enjoying the fruits of our investment in recent years in developing computerized defence systems."

Steinitz has instructed his ministry to operate in emergency mode to counter attempts to undermine government sites.

Both sides in the Gaza conflict, but particularly Israel, are embracing the social media as one of their tools of warfare. The Israeli Defense Force has established a presence on nearly every platform available while Palestinian militants are active on Twitter.

"The war is taking place on three fronts. The first is physical, the second is on the world of social networks and the third is cyber," said Carmela Avner, Israel's chief information officer.

Last month, US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said cyberspace is the battlefield of the future, with attackers already going after banks and other financial systems. US banks have been under sustained attack by suspected Iranian hackers thought to be responding to economic sanctions aimed at forcing Tehran to negotiate over its nuclear program.

 

US: INDIAN HACKERS

INDIAN ORIGIN MAN CHARGED WITH HACKING GAMING COMPANY SERVERS

The indian-origin man has been charged with hacking into and disabling a new hampshire-based gaming company's computer servers, resulting in loss of thousands of dollars, and faces up to seven years in prison. Anil kheda (24), of the netherlands is charged with one count of conspiring to commit computer intrusion and one count of making extortionate interstate threats.kheda faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison on the conspiracy charge and two years in prison on the interstate threats charge if convicted. A federal grand jury in new hampshire on wednesday returned the indictment charging kheda, a dutch national, with allegedly conspiring to hack into and disable computer servers belonging to rampid interactive.the new hampshire-based company publishes and hosts a multi-player online role-playing game called 'outwar', assistant attorney general lanny breuer of the justice department's criminal division said in a statement. The indictment alleges that from november 2007 to august 2008, kheda and other members of the conspiracy, all of whom were avid players of the game, accessed rampid's computer servers without authorisation and rendered the game unplayable for days at a time. The indictment also alleges that kheda and his co-conspirators threatened rampid with continued hacking into its computer systems unless rampid agreed to pay them money or provide them with other benefits. Rampid incurred losses of over 100,000 dollars as well as the loss of exclusive use of their proprietary source code, which it had invested approximately $ 1.5 million in creating.