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After slew of cyber-strikes, BDS movement points finger at Israel
2016-06-03
The targeters targetted.
[IsraelTimes] Report says attacks had ’sophistication and commitment,’ notes that unidentified Israeli rights group was also

The international movement calling for a boycott against Israel said Thursday its website was repeatedly attacked earlier this year, and raised suspicions that Israel was behind the attacks.
Maybe it was Anonymous, or some script kiddies got their IP wrong...Not every bad thing that happens is the fault of the Joooooos, donchaknow.
The BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) movement released a report Thursday showing that its main website suffered six attacks in February and March. The denial of service attacks, which work by flooding a target website with bogus traffic, knocked out the BDS website for several hours at a time.
Simply dreadful.
The report, compiled by nonprofit online security service eQualit.ie, said the attacks had a level of "sophistication and commitment" it normally does not see. It also noted that an unidentified Israeli human rights
...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you...
 group had been attacked at the same time, indicating there was a "common adversary."
B'tselem? J Street? That group of Ultra-orthodox Jews who think Israel ought not exist?
Assigning responsibility for cyber-attacks is notoriously difficult and the report didn’t speculate on who might be behind the rogue traffic.
"It appears to come from the computer on your desk, sir, but we'll understand if you don't want that in the final report."
In a statement, the BDS movement said the "advanced technology used in the attacks and the size of the botnets involved may show that Israel was directly involved" but it offered no hard evidence.

Israeli cyber-security expert Gilad Yoshi said such attacks do not cause serious damage, adding it was unlikely a government was behind them.

"These are not high-level attacks," said Yoshi, an expert at the electronic defense training company CyberGym.

BDS calls for boycotts, sanctions and divestment from Israel in what it calls a nonviolent struggle against occupation. Israel says BDS’s goal is to destroy the country, and it has identified the movement as a serious threat.
Has Guccifer been playing with the FBI computer again, displaying his mad skillz?
Jerusalem has earmarked funds for Israeli tech companies for digital initiatives aimed at gathering intelligence on activist groups and countering their efforts.

Initiatives are largely being kept covert. Participants at one recent invite-only forum, held on the sidelines of a cyber technology conference, repeatedly stood up to remind people that journalists were in the room.

Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs, which is spearheading the government’s battle against BDS, was reviewing Thursday’s report and had no immediate comment.
"Hahahahahaha ... No, of course that's not a comment, we haven't read the report yet."

Despite BDS, Israeli firms enjoy a foreign investment boom
What's the opposite of schadenfreude?
Posted by:trailing wife

#5  My bet is some script kiddies out to make a name for themselves

My thought, too. Or maybe some spook got tired of their BDS shenanigans and decided to spend his lunch hour messing with them.
Posted by: SteveS   2016-06-03 17:28  

#4  Nutznet, a Joooooo virilli designed to look like a stupid Goy DOS attack.

How to remove: Find the tiny Cow-Dawg icon in your System Folder. Delete restart and go to lunch, there's a slim but non-zero chance this killer virilli might be hiding in a Document Folder with the bogus name of Nieman-Marcus cookie recipe. If you find delete it and send Microsoft a screen shot, most people who do this get free M$ Software and maybe cash a cease and desist order.
Posted by: Shipman   2016-06-03 17:18  

#3  I'd say the fact that the website isn't a smoking crater and the BDS Founders aren't in prison for true or fabricated charges is a sign that Israel is not involved.

My bet is some script kiddies out to make a name for themselves. Or the BDS organization itself.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2016-06-03 11:31  

#2  ...the "advanced technology used in the attacks and the size of the botnets involved may show that Israel was directly involved" but it offered no hard evidence.

Um... DOS attacks aren't that advanced and there is technology to avoid most of them now.

Sounds more like "THE JEWS DID IT!! THEY CONTROL THE WORLD!!!" type hysteria to me.
Posted by: DarthVader   2016-06-03 10:57  

#1  The BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) movement released a report Thursday showing that its main website suffered six attacks in February and March.

Only in February and March?
Posted by: Pappy   2016-06-03 10:54  

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