[ISN] Hackers Try to Bring Down Jewish Agency's Website

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 02:09:09 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/159848

By Elad Benari
Israel National News
9/11/2012

Hackers from several countries around the world tried to attack the 
website of the Jewish Agency this past weekend.

As of Friday, the website was targeted by attackers from Russia, 
Hungary, Saudi Arabia, Brazil and Austria, among others.

The continued attacks brought down the site, causing it to be available 
intermittently and endangering the information stored on it.

Dov Yahav, chief information officer of the Jewish Agency, eventually 
decided to block the Corporate Web Server for external users, thus 
preventing possible damage.

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