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Syrian Defense Ministry Web Site Hacked

The group of hackers known as Anonymous have hacked the Syrian Defense Ministry website. I fear we’ll see similar attacks on Israeli web sites come September. Related reading: Gadi Everon on Cyber Warfare

Pesach Benson
August 8, 2011
12:00 am

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The group of hackers known as Anonymous have hacked the Syrian Defense Ministry website.

I fear we’ll see similar attacks on Israeli web sites come September.

Related reading: Gadi Everon on Cyber Warfare

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Tags: Arab Spring, cyber warfare, hackers, Syrian uprising

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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