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Israel prepares to spam the internet with their propaganda. Also beware of the Arab/Israeli cyberwar
#5927894 - 08/03/06 06:16 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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This is an interesting article. Nevertheless, i want to remind everyone there's a cyberwar going on between arabs and israelis. I've seem some more hacked sites as of late, so back up your stuff !
Israel backed by army of cyber-soldiers From Yonit Farago in Jerusalem WHILE Israel fights Hezbollah with tanks and aircraft, its supporters are campaigning on the internet.
Israel’s Government has thrown its weight behind efforts by supporters to counter what it believes to be negative bias and a tide of pro-Arab propaganda. The Foreign Ministry has ordered trainee diplomats to track websites and chatrooms so that networks of US and European groups with hundreds of thousands of Jewish activists can place supportive messages.
In the past week nearly 5,000 members of the World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS) have downloaded special “megaphone” software that alerts them to anti-Israeli chatrooms or internet polls to enable them to post contrary viewpoints. A student team in Jerusalem combs the web in a host of different languages to flag the sites so that those who have signed up can influence an opinion survey or the course of a debate.
Jonny Cline, of the international student group, said that Jewish students and youth groups with their understanding of the web environment were ideally placed to present another side to the debate.
“We’re saying to these people that if Israel is being bashed, don’t ignore it, change it,” Mr Cline said. “A poll like CNN’s takes just a few seconds to vote in, but if thousands take part the outcome will be changed. What’s vital is that the international face of the conflict is balanced.”
Doron Barkat, 29, in Jerusalem, spends long nights trawling the web to try to swing the debate Israel’s way. “When I see internet polls for or against Israel I send out a mailing list to vote for Israel,” he said. “It can be that after 15 minutes there will be 400 votes for Israel.
“It’s very satisfying. There are also forums where Lebanese and Israelis talk.”
Israel’s Foreign Ministry must avoid direct involvement with the campaign but is in contact with international Jewish and evangelical Christian groups, distributing internet information packs.
Amir Gissin, the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s public relations director, said: “The internet’s become a leading tool for news, shaping the world view of millions. Our problem is the foreign media shows Lebanese suffering, but not Israeli. We’re bypassing that filter by distributing pictures showing how northern Israelis suffer from Katyusha rocket attacks.”
Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,174-2289232,00.html
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Re: Israel prepares to spam the internet with their propaganda. Also beware of the Arab/Israeli cybe [Re: MAIA]
#5930846 - 08/04/06 09:07 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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Another related article :
The largest cyberwar to date is quietly brewing, and the participants are not necessarily limited to the Middle East
The Internet is a powerful tool that is once again being used as a propaganda machine by groups not happy with Israel's invasion of Lebanon, and vice versa. A number of US government web sites have been targeted by cracking groups. The latest victim has been NASA who was attacked by a Chilean group of crackers. With the seriousness of the situation in the Middle East escalating, security experts expect further attacks to be made on Israeli and American computer servers.
So far, NASA, University of California, Berkeley, various government web sites and Microsoft have been targeted. Unfortunately, the fifty or so machines publically compromised last week are just the tip of the iceberg. These systems are just peripheral to the amount of Israeli and Arabic computers under attack, but both sides are doing their best to conceal the extent of the attacks.
Hackers from both China and the US have occasionally sparred with one another since early 2001. The initial cyberwar started after a US spy plane collided with a Chinese fighter jet in April of 2001. Thousands of web sites in China and the United States were subject to defacements and hacker attacks for over a month -- and thus earned conflict the title of the first major cyberwar.
The difference between the Sino-American Cyberwar of 2001 is that governments from all sides are participating a bit more, and damages are considerably higher as well. Lebanese newspapers report that the major Hezbollah-backed TV and radio stations have been compromised, and that whoever has retained control of these outlets is now broadcasting messages that Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah is a liar. PCs compromised in Europe and Russia have been used to send anti-Semitic and anti-Arabic hate mail. Israeli-based denial of service attacks against Hamas and Hezbollah websites have effectively crippled portions of the internet infrastructure on both sides of the conflict.
Digital warfare is certainly a component of modern warfare today: electronics espionage and jamming are almost as old as electronics themselves. This new facet of digital sabotage is another story altogether, with digital warriors partaking from the comfort of their own cable modem virtually side-by-side with government intelligence agencies hacking and counter-hacking the same targets.
Source: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=3589
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