Israeli Government Sites Crash in Cyberattack

A number of Israeli government websites went down on Monday in what may be the largest-ever cyberattack carried out against the country. Haaretz reports: The Israeli cyber authority confirmed the attack was a DDos (Digital-denial of service) attack that had blocked access to government websites, and that all websites were back online. The websites of the interior, health, justice and welfare ministries had been taken offline, as was that of the Prime Minister's Office. A defense establishment source claims that this was the largest-ever cyberattack carried out against Israel. They believe that a state actor or large organization is carried out the attack, but cannot yet determine who is behind it. The defense establishment and the National Cyber Directorate have declared a state of emergency in order to study the extent of the damage, while checking strategic Israeli websites and government infrastructure, such as Israel's electric and water companies, to see whether they were also attacked.

That's not what DDOS means.

[bugnuts]

DDOS means "distributed denial of service", not "digital".

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[Media Archivist]

That was straight out of the Haaretz article, and I agree that it is (most likely) wrong. I mean, "digital" is correct in a sense... but still wrong. Right?

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[account_deleted]

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Ask any Hacker

[ericspinder]

While sometimes tech words change meanings, 'hacker' didn't imply criminal or as loosely applied, but yes, DDoS had long been 'distributed', likely the author (and his editor) was wrong.

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[azcoyote]

Yeah, it's not like the Internet suffers from a lot of analog denial of service attacks...

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[sabbede]

Isn't that when someone steals a monthly sci-fi mag from your mailbox?

Re: That's not what DDOS means.

[anonymouscoward52236]

The internetcorrect internet term is iDOS.

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[suss]

It will probably be corrected in the inevitable dupe story. You can't expect everything to be right the first time around...

A 'digital' denial of service attack?

[Entrope]

Go ahead, data entry person, tell us that you don't have either a clue or a fact checker without saying that you don't have either a clue or a fact checker.

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[znrt]

funny how aggressively you mock the editor for a typo, when the source and the entire article is inane nonsensical bullshit already.

they declare a state of emergency (to themselves) to evaluate "the harm done" for a ddos that impacted a few ministerial sites? it's just pathetic how self-important and full of (hot) air these morons are. and they don't even know where it came from. looks like they need a scapegoat asap, bets are on ...

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[Entrope]

That quote was from TFA. I was mocking the person who wrote it, and by extension the publishing outfit they work for, not an editor.

With luck it will be from Ukraine

[quonset]

Considering Israel is allowing Russian oligarchs to hide their planes [timesofisrael.com] in the country to get around sanctions, pleaded with the U.S. not sanction Roman Abramovich [timesofisrael.com], and there is now an investigation about how Abramovich got his Portugese citizenship [timesofisrael.com], it wouldn't surprise me in the least if Ukraine hackers targeted Israel for its duplicity.

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[Impy the Impiuos Imp]

I had a similar thought. Is this just same old Israel hatred, or is it a western attack because Israel isn' going along with the received wisdom of Ukranian support?

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[fazig]

Well, a certain disdain for what Israel has been doing to Palestine has been existing in the "West" for a long time.
Ironically, Russian state media (or outlets like Al Jazeera) has been one of the larger sources of stirring the pot here, as many Western media outlets seem to have avoided reporting negatively about Israel. Especially in countries like Germany, where "whatabout that Holocaust?" is usually enough to make most ethnic Germans look the other way (exceptions exist of course, there are plenty of N

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[hackertourist]

You mean oligarchs like Roman Abramovich, who is of Jewish descent and holds an Israeli citizenship? Fancy that, a state standing up for its citizens.

HAHAHA

[AppXprt]

DDoS means Distributed Denial of Service, but BeauHD is a joke editor who censors real news for shit like this.

BeauHD

[AppXprt]

Honestly, BeauHD, you've been a horrible editor for years and you censor news articles that are legitimate. I for one vote that Slashdot remove this idiot as an editor and maybe Slashdot would improve. I'm actually saving up to sue Slashdot, solely because of BeauHD removing multiple of my legitimate posts.

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[AppXprt]

in what way is slashdot obligated to do anything for you?

It owes me nothing, which isn't what the lawsuit is going to be about anyways. The lawsuit is about BeauHD's blatantly targeting my articles and taking down every single one of them, because of a vendetta. That's why he's going to be sued along side of Slashdot.

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[WaffleMonster]

It owes me nothing, which isn't what the lawsuit is going to be about anyways. The lawsuit is about BeauHD's blatantly targeting my articles and taking down every single one of them, because of a vendetta. That's why he's going to be sued along side of Slashdot.

If I ran a free site and someone threatened to sue me I'd kick their ass off in a heartbeat.

Re: BeauHD

[anonymouscoward52236]

If I ran a free site, I'd make it where the comments can'd be edited by the commenter! (Is this the 21st century or what?)

Re: BeauHD

[anonymouscoward52236]

If I ran a free site, I'd also put bugs in the dropdowns that don't respond properly to mobile touch events, so it would open and close the menu at the top. I'd refuse to fix it for years, but people would still use the site for some reason.

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[Fly Swatter]

You should ask for your money back!

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[Fly Swatter]

What's to think about, somehow there are laws on the books in almost every country making it illegal to criticize one very specific culture of people.

Who could oppose Israel's recent politics?

[be_kul]

Meeting with Ivan the Terrible (who calls himself now "Wladimir") and treating him as a politician with whom one should talk to end the war is an absolute No-Go for the Deep State, I guess.

Right after sanctioning Russia

[locater16]

I'm sure it's a coincidence though.

Sites?

[denny_deluxe]

Someone hire a spellchecker, stat.