The growing electronic war between Israeli and pro-Palestinian hackers threatens to shut down large portions of the Internet, government and industry, experts warned last night. The FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center, the agency that combats cybercrimes, recently sent out an advisory warning that the tit-for-tat attacks that have shut down and defaced Israeli government and Hezbollah and Hamas Web sites in the last month could "spill over," into the United States.
"Due to the credible threat of terrorist acts in the Middle East region and the conduct of these Web attacks, [users] should exercise increased vigilance to the possibility that U.S. government and private-sector Web sites may become potential targets," the FBI advisory said.
News: Network Security
