Reports of Internet slowdowns as anti-Israel hackers prepare Sept. 11 attacks

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http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/1.546299

By Gili Cohen and Orr Hirschauge
Haaretz
Sep. 10, 2013

Hundreds of Israelis who have recently reported slowdowns in their 
Internet access appear to have been the victims of cyberattacks, Haaretz 
has learned. This comes as a hacker group evidently protesting Israeli 
policies is planning its latest round of cyberattacks on Israeli websites, 
scheduled for today.

The group, AnonGhost, has released a list of Israeli online targets, 
including numerous government websites, on Internet forums used by the 
Anonymous Collective. In allusion to previous such cyberattacks, the 
operation is titled OpIsrael Reborn.

Following reports of the slowdowns in Internet use, technicians in a 
communications company raised the possibility of an intentional attack 
directed at computers unprotected by a password and thus open to being 
hacked.

Home computers unprotected by a password, or whose operators have given 
the password to a technician to allow repairs, are vulnerable to hackers 
in another country seeking such openings. The National Cyber Bureau says 
the hacker involved in these cases is known to them.

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