Screen shot of the hacked site. (Image:Israel National News)
Last Thursday night, a group of Palestinian hackers virtually took over the Israeli fire services website. On the hacked page, the group penned “Gaza Hackers Team” and featured the image at right of Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon,who has pledged to wage war against “cyber-terrorism.”
Wounded by the virtual embarrassment, today, the Israeli government restored security to its fire website.
The hackers group singled out Ayalon because of an earlier digital scandal. Last week a Saudi hacker posted credit card information for 400,000 Israelis, and Ayalon pledged to fight dirty:
We will take firm action against those who compromise our security including through cyber-terrorism, and if necessary we will use international law enforcement … Cyber-terrorism is the new battleground and just as we defeated our opponents on every other field … we will defeat this as well.
Re-read that: “just as we defeated our opponents on every other field … we will defeat this as well.” What is he threatening, Operation Cast Lead, the Gulf Edition?
Ayalon said he will “send a message to all those who have hurt or plan to hurt Israel – in cyberspace as well – that they would be hurting themselves. They will not be immune to Israeli retaliation.”
Screen shot of Israeli fire services website, back up and running following surprise hacker attack.
He gave no indication of what “retaliation” means. Pro-Israel missionaries are already getting paid $2,000 to digitally police social media. Outside of the Hasbara online support, what type of a response can a state use with hackers? Confiscate all of the computers in the occupied Palestinian territories?
Meantime, the Palestinian team that took down the Israel fire services site last night vowed to continue with the surprise website hijackings, posting the message, “we hack into your websites, and will continue to do so until you suffer.”
“The National Union of Israeli Students (NUIS) has become a full-time partner in the Israeli government’s efforts to spread its propaganda online and on college campuses around the world.
NUIS has launched a program to pay Israeli university students $2,000 to spread pro-Israel propaganda online for 5 hours per week from the “comfort of home.”
The union is also partnering with Israel’s Jewish Agency to send Israeli students as missionaries to spread propaganda in other countries, for which they will also receive a stipend.”
Now we all know where Amercian dollars (help) go.
2000$ for 5 hours of work?? It makes abot $400 per hour, not bad for student’s pocket. Equivalent of an hourly pay of a ,very ,very good doctor/specialist in the USA.
P.S. I hope that this is mistake and they pay only $200 or maybe $20 for 5 hours of b..sht??
I reccomend spreding this info all over.
Many people will be pissed over it, not as much for possiblity of a war with Iran,
but over a fact that students get paid 400$ per hour for writing brainwashing nonsense on the internet.
(1) Ayalon’s obviously been busy stealing some Winston Churchill phraseology.
(2) Israel is now stealing ideas from America instead of from the British commonwealths like South Africa and Australia. More specifically, I am referring to the use of the Hebrew word Lochameh, as in those who fight, combatants, or more accurately, Fighters, ala Firefighters. Instead of Mechabeh Esh, Fire Extinguishers, they are now called Firefighters, just like in Ameghica.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC8cr-qNiFY
Good to see those Zionist fire extinguishers get their comeuppance at last!
If the Israeli response to this sort of hacking really is a physical and brutal one (assassination, Cast Lead 2.0, bombing an entire suburban neighborhood to take out one person and his computer, etc.) I would not be surprised. It would actually expect it.