Anonymous strikes again....

The fighting between Israel and Palestine has been on three different fronts. The first is the physical fighting taking place, the second is the war of opinion on social networking sites and the third is the cyber war taking place. A large contributor in the cyber war has been the hacktivist group Anonymous. They have decided to attack the Israeli government via the web because of what they call “barbaric, brutal and despicable treatment” of Palestinians. Since the aerial strikes on Gaza last week, the Israeli government has been hit with over 44 million cyberattacks. Some of these have been pro Israeli websites taken down, some have been passwords leaked. Basically they are doing every they can to spot the war by limiting the accessibility of Israel’s computer systems. I find it very interesting that nowadays, it is possible to affect a war that is thousands of kilometers while in the comfort of your own home. The article I read is http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/19/tech/web/cyber-attack-israel-anonymous/index.html?hpt=hp_bn5