Hackers fail to bring down government websites, but successfully target sites belonging to musicians, organization for excellence in education and association of urologists - Several websites were brought down over night by pro-Palestinian hackers, as Anonymous engaged in its now annual attack on the Israeli internet. Major government websites were targeted but were not brought down, including the sites for the Knesset, Education Ministry and the government portal. Most hacking attempts come in the form of a denial of service attack, in which a website is inundated with requests for access, to the point that the site's servers cannot cope and the site either functions extremely slowly or collapses altogether. Despite the largely failed attempt to bring down government websites, numerous private sites were brought down Tuesday, with many displaying the phrase "Hacked by Anonghost". Among those hacked were the official sites for local singers Shalom Hanoch and Ivri Lider, popular band Hadag Nachash, the Israeli Center for Excellence through Education, the Israeli Urological Association and others. In addition, hackers claimed to have also accessed a number of email accounts, and published the list of compromised sites and emails. They also claimed to have hacked the website of the court system, but that was working normally by Tuesday morning. The annual attack on Israeli websites, or "#OpIsrael", is carried out by those identifying as Anonghost or Anonymous. The stated goal is to repay various groups and bodies in Israel for the country's treatment of the Palestinians, by causing inconvenience and discomfort for Israeli citizens, which it says Israel does to the Palestinians. "As we did many times, we will take down your servers, government websites, Israeli military websites, and Israeli institutions," said a video message released recently, warning of the impending attacks. "We will erase you from cyberspace in our Electronic Holocaust." Every few months or so, hackers threaten to launch cyber attacks on Israeli sites. In many cases, hackers fail to carry out the attack, or cause minimal and temporary damage. On April 7 last year, there was a small-scale cyber attack on Israel, but with no significant victims. Photos: Some of the images seen today at some local sites... The last image was put in one of the local Mazda center sites, they also had some hardcore Jihadi music, I was about to bring here the link, but the site is back to normal by now...Also take notice at the photomontage in the first photo...



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