{"id":12009,"date":"2011-11-02T15:29:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T11:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=12009"},"modified":"2011-11-02T15:29:06","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T11:29:06","slug":"news-analysis-hackers-target-palestinian-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/middle-east-politics-analysis\/news-analysis-hackers-target-palestinian-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"News Analysis: Hackers Target Palestinian Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/hack.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12010\" title=\"hack\" src=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/hack-e1320233260195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/hack-e1320233260195.jpg 498w, https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/hack-e1320233260195-145x92.jpg 145w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><strong>What&#8217;s the story?<\/strong>\u00a0 Hackers shut down internet service throughout Palestine on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How bad was the attack<\/strong>? Pretty bad. Service was apparently completely shut down in Gaza and partially shut down in the West Bank after hackers unleashed malware on the main ISP in Palestine, Paltel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Could it be some angry teenager operating from a laptop in his bedroom?<\/strong>\u00a0 Given the scale and sophistication of the attack it&#8217;s a highly unlikely scenario.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do the Palestinian authorities have any suspicions about who carried out this attack<\/strong>? &#8220;The hack was a focused, organized attack that was put together by a nation-state,&#8221; Palestinian Telecommunications Minister Mashour Abu Daqqa told reporters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ah, I think I&#8217;m getting the picture.<\/strong> \u00a0No names yet but given that the attack happened the day after Palestine&#8217;s acceptance by UNESCO as a full member the finger of suspicion appears to be heading in one direction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>But state sponsored cyber vandalism is unlikely to win many friends and its effect is generally pretty limited, isn&#8217;t it?<\/strong>\u00a0 That&#8217;s true which is why some IT experts are suggesting that the attack could have been organised by a group of cyber-vigilantes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are the Palestinian authorities going to do about it<\/strong>? They said they&#8217;ll seek the help of the governments of countries from which the attacks were actually launched. And they&#8217;ll probably splash out on some fortified security software as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet service throughout the Palestinian territories disappeared altogether or was running very slowly on Tuesday.  A sustained, well-organised attack? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,483,119,60,482,893],"tags":[278,18311,18297,1747,4783,580],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}