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Israeli-Turkish Cyberwar Begins
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 01:48:50 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/147603 By Gavriel Queenann Israel National News 9/6/2011Amid the current diplomatic impasse between Ankara and Jerusalem, Turkish hackers hijacked some 350 Israeli websites on Sunday evening, launching a Domain Name System (DNS) attack on dozens of other websites as well.
Israeli IT analysts said Tuesday the DNS hijacking is likely to be, in fact, a "test-run" ahead of a major attack on Israeli domains.
Visitors to some of the sites were diverted to a page declaring it was “World Hackers Day."
At least seven high-profile websites outside Israel were also hijacked, including those of The Telegraph, Acer, National Geographic, UPS and Vodafone.
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