US firm helps Hamas, Netanyahu keep hackers at bay

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http://www.timesofisrael.com/us-firm-helps-hamas-netanyahu-keep-hackers-at-bay/

By David Shamah
The Times of Israel
July 14, 2014

There isn’t much Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas have in 
common — but one thing they do agree on is how to keep their websites safe 
from hackers. Both rely on a web service called CloudFlare, which helps 
customers avoid hacking and denial of service attacks.

CloudFlare enables users to mask their location and Internet connection 
service providers. As a result, would-be hackers don’t which server to 
attack, so they can’t try to pull a site down by hacking into it or 
attempting a denial of service attack.

Critics complain that CloudFlare provides protection equally to nations, 
legitimate concerns, criminals, and terrorists.

As Hamas fires hundreds of rockets at Israel, and the Israeli air force 
hits back at Gaza, hackers sympathetic to Hamas have over the past several 
days hacked into numerous Israeli websites, as is common during periods of 
increased tension. Several days ago, for example, anti-Israel hackers 
defaced one of the most popular Israeli Facebook pages, StatusHunter, 
replacing the content with a slideshow purporting to show how the IDF was 
making Gazans suffer.

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