Internet services in the West Bank and Gaza have come under "sustained attack" by unknown hackers in multiple locations, according to officials. The attack had interrupted services, causing internet connections to range from "very, very slow to completely stopped". The authorities have no idea who the attack is coming from or who may have caused it. The attack came the day after the Palestinians won a symbolically significant victory at Unesco, which voted overwhelmingly on Monday to admit the Palestinian Authority as a full member. The move triggered punitive financial sanctions against the UN agency by the US. After gaining the backing of 107 countries, with 14 voting against and 52 abstaining, the Palestinian leadership is considering membership applications to other global bodies to capitalize on its success. Ibrahim Khraishi, the Palestinian envoy at the UN in Geneva, said other international organizations and UN agencies were now a target.
This can be a very large problem for one, because they do not even know who started this and have no idea who it may be, it could be anyone. If it is this easy to attack internet services in a certain area or country then this person could do just about anything else that they want. Most of the crisis with technology that happen have to do with a virus being spread, a worm, and someone attacking businesses or countries internet sources. Every week there is something new. This mean that countries and businesses need to protect their technology based sources a lot more accurately!
2 comments:
I think it is so crazy that I never thought about technology being a global problem, besides to hurt people (weapons), but your topic in this post does make a point. Any kind of information being attained illegally especially from the government I could only think would really hurt specific individuals, not physically but in other ways that aren't tangible. I am glad that you touched on this subject.
I really had to comment on this blog because something like this recently happened to my family member. A man with an Arabian accent had called my aunt recently asking for her computer ISP number. Luckily she was smart and didnt give it to him, but what if this was with the same people who messed with the internet connection here. This is really scary because if it happened overseas there is a great possibility that it could happen here in the U.S.
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