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The hacking retaliation for military action continues, this time with a group of Pakistani hackers joining the fray. Unfortunately, they’ve decided to take out their wrath on poor old Microsoft and its myriad of Israel-facing sites, oh, and Coke, Groupon, and the BBC too.
Apparently at least 31 different sites were hacked, including Intel, Amazon, Philips, the Beeb, and Groupon, but Microsoft took the brunt of it. Bing, Microsoft Store, MSN, Windows Live, and a load of Xbox sites were all targeted. It doesn’t look like Anonymous was involved this time, but it’s still aimed squarely at Israel’s recent military action.
OK, taking down commercial sites isn’t exactly going to worry the Israeli government all that much, after all it’s apparently withstood some 44 million hack attempts with only one success. But it doesn’t exactly do wonders for business in Israel. Is this new type of war, which spills out onto the internet as well as causing bloodshed on the ground, the future of warfare? I really hope not. [Zone-H via TNW]
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Google.il is still up (in English, Hebrew and Arabic) either it’s more resilient or the attackers are Google Fanboys
they dont need to target Apple as previous topics have pointed out that apple are doing that themselves
Maybe they are using Google to find sites that the infidels are using.
But at least the hackers prevented people from checking out latest processor news, doing their online shopping and getting discount vouchers – that will show them.
Yeah F*#k you Israel what ya gonna do with no cheap electronics from Amazon and your kids can’t read reviews on how awesome the Wii U is
Israeli’s pay high import taxes on electronic goods (34.6% on a cellphone for example) so “cheap” may not be the right word.
Shut it Darrel or ill change your facebook profiles picture with a cute cuddily cat
You will have some difficulty since I nuked my facebook account some time ago. Also I have plenty of cute cat pictures already so don’t need any more.
Thats it im gonna sign you up to this website http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/apple
I agree. Taking down innocuous websites’ll teach em!
“myriad of” is tautological. The “of” is already expressed within the word “myriad”. Thus “myriad of” is much like “PIN number”.
Dullest post ever? Potentially.
Was going to call you a grammar nazi, but realized it’s a sam gibbs post. You wasted your time correcting him and I wasted mine reading your post.
Why is it a waste of time correcting Sam’s posts? Personally I send him an e-mail rather than pointing it out in the comments, but that’s just how I roll. Also as you say he isn’t actually wrong, so the OP was wasting his time.
You send Sam emails correcting him? Lucky boy
I send him e-mails pointing out the odd typo and if the site is acting weird. When I do, he thanks me. Likewise he thanks me for the large number of links I feed him. He’s a very polite young man is Dr Gibbs.
Oh, and by the way, you’re wrong
I feel a need to leap to Sam’s defence here. I’m not sure why.
Webster’s disagrees with you.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/myriad
It is always slightly depressing when your education gets blown out the water. Oh well.