Despite claims, Iranians didn’t hack Israeli aviation system

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http://www.timesofisrael.com/despite-claims-iranians-didnt-hack-israeli-aviation-system/

BY DAVID SHAMAH
Times of Israel
January 9, 2014

Iranian hackers did not compromise the Israel Airports Authority, despite 
claims by the Islamic Cyber Resistance Group that it was able to hack into 
databases controlling air routes for Israeli and foreign airlines, said 
Israeli Internet expert Tal Pavel.

"It’s just another example of Iranian psychological warfare by the 
Iranians,” he told The Times of Israel. “There is nothing for anyone to 
worry about from these people."

On Thursday, ICRG released a statement on the Iranian Wikileaks site that 
was picked up Iran's state-controlled Fars News Agency claiming the hack. 
Along with documents and maps, Fars published a quote by the hacker group 
that said it was "proud to add another one to its line of success and 
announces access to the LAN of Israeli aviation organization, in a move to 
render the fake legend of Israel’s security and invincibility obsolete."

With the help of the OpIsrael hacker group -- the same one that failed to 
fulfill its threat last April to destroy Israel’s Internet infrastructure 
and send the country back to the "stone age" -- ICRG said, it has for 
months been privy to the traffic on the IAA website, enough time, the 
group said, "to download a huge amount of data and analyze and study 
different modules of Israel’s air traveling and aviation systems. This 
brought us valuable information regarding flight communication structures 
and processes in Israel."

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