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Hackers: Summary...



Hello,
in the last weeks, there were claims that Lebanonise hackers had
systematic and advanced attacks against Israeli companies, including
banks. It was claimed that these attacks succeeded to break Firewall
1 (CheckPoint), and that damages were found at 100 (!) sites.
According to the claims, log files were removed.

We could think about it as a new joke, but the Israeli newspapers
started a rating race to reach the most dramatic story. Moreover,
the two "hackers", were found to be innocent subscribers of this
mailing list (Linux-IL), who run some important volunteer projects
(such as Linux for blinds, etc.).

As was mentioned in the list 48 hours BEFORE the first newspapers
published that hoax, the whole story was only an embarrassing
mistake of a company which claimed to be "expert" in security.
Although it was proven immediately that this was a mistake, this
company preferred to post press-releases to the media, and even
threated to get the police and the Israeli security bodies involved.

On Monday, October 26, I wrote the full story, and posted to two
newspapers, hoping to relax the Balagan. The editors loved the
story, but unfortunately, had strange demands which I could not
accept (such as having some editorial changes - after the original
story with the hoax was not modified at all, or putting another
name instead of mine, or publishing it next month - becuase of
deadlines, etc.).

So I decided to put it publically on the Net:
	http://elmar.co.il/wwh/column/1survey/

The story is thrilling, and contains all the interesting issues:
Hackers, Hizbullah, Neo-Nazis, hackers-methods, statistics and
numbers which may surprise some of us, banks exploited, etc.

The story is available only in Hebrew (sorry!), but supports all the
Hebrew standards, and even can be viewed with no Hebrew fonts at all
(i.e graphically). For more details about the various displaying
methods, click at the "Sinit, Hafuch, etc." icon on the page.

Enjoy,
-- 
Eli Marmor
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