Israeli hackers take down Arab bank sites

The Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates and the Gaza-based Arab Bank are both down at the time of writing, the latest victims in an escalating tit-for-tat war between Israeli and Arab hackers. Before the attacks, a group calling itself IDF-Team posted a message on Pastebin warning that the banks would be targeted in retaliation for an earlier hit on Israel's anti-drug authority's site. read more <http://bit.ly/y5d7Ok>

Hmm, someone said the 3rd World War would be fought online. This is it. On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 14:15, John Doe Smith Kamau KipNg'etich Jones < skunkworks.ku@gmail.com> wrote:
The Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates and the Gaza-based Arab Bank are both down at the time of writing, the latest victims in an escalating tit-for-tat war between Israeli and Arab hackers.
Before the attacks, a group calling itself IDF-Team posted a message on Pastebin warning that the banks would be targeted in retaliation for an earlier hit on Israel's anti-drug authority's site. read more <http://bit.ly/y5d7Ok>
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Think for it to be worth more than just glory they should target more strategic applications like on-line tax returns or declarations then that would be ww3 in my view. What's the point of the hack? * If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. - Emerson M. Pugh *
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John Doe Smith Kamau KipNg'etich Jones
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kris njoroge
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Odhiambo Washington