Information Security News: Knesset Internet site hacked

[William Knowles <wk () C4I ORG>]

http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2000/10/26/LatestNews/LatestNews.14377.html

Thursday, October 26 2000   Tishri 5761

The Knesset internet site has been hacked and is out of service,
Israel Radio reports.

A Knesset spokesman said the majority of a flood of e-mails that
brought down the site, originated in Lebanon.

The latest wave of hacker and spam attacks on numerous Israeli Army
and government sites has prompted the IDF to turn to the services of
American communications giant AT&T.

An IDF spokesman said the site registered a record 140,000 hits from
over 100 countries in the last week.

The US communications company will join Israeli server Netvision as
service providers for the IDF in order to beef up the army's ability
to cope with possible hacker and e-mail attacks, Army Radio said.


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