Mossad recruiting site hacked

[InfoSec News <isn () c4i org>]

Forwarded from: William Knowles <wk () c4i org>

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/04/1067708185977.html

By Online Staff
November 4, 2003

A website run by Israel's Mossad intelligence agency to recruit agents
was broken into by a citizen of the country, according to a report in
Haaretz, an English daily published from Tel Aviv.

Haaretz said Israel Radio had reported that the man, 23, was charged
in a court in Jerusalem but did not mention when the website was
vandalised.

The site was set up last year, the report said, in a bid to attract a
wider pool of applicants. In the past, the Mossad has recruited agents
only by invitation.

The site has an intro in Flash and after this runs, non-Hebrew readers
have the choice of using a form in English to submit an application to
join the Mossad.

The report said prosecutors described the man as having deliberately
broken into the system in what was described as a sophisticated
attack.

The man's defence attorney said he just wanted to make sure that
whatever he was submitting in his application was secure and would not
fall into the wrong hands, the report said.



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