Posted by Nimrod Kozlovski on Monday, February 17 @ 23:31:24 EST
The FBI sent lately a clear message to the American Hackers not to open
an independent electronic warfare aimed at computers
The FBI sent lately a clear message to the American Hackers
not to open anindependent
electronic warfare aimed at computers and communication Infrastructure in Iraq.
This warning, initiated by NIPC (National
Infrastructure Protection Center), declares that “Patriotic Hacking” is a
crime and may lead to indictments.
NIPC announced that the warning was published to raise the
public awareness to hacking activates worldwide. Past political conflicts have
lead to massive information attacks and counter attacks by hackers which
included websites defacement, virus spreading and Denial of service attacks.
The American government makes it clear this time that
“Patriotic hacking” will not be tolerated while an organized information
warfare may be initiated by the government if the circumstances for such an
attack arise (see: Washington
Post). Commentators assume thatNIPC’s announcement came due toassessment of risk to American infrastructures if an electronic warfare
begins. While American critical infrastructures are dependant upon the Internet
and communication networks and can be severely damaged by hacking activities,
Iraq has only 12,000 computers connected to the Internet and only minor
valuable information is accessible from the network. At the same time, hacking
attacks aiming to damage the computers in Iraq might cause an unexpected severe
damage to American serves and computers. (More in Nana
(Hebrew))
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