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Israeli hackers hit Saudi stock exchange
Roi Kais
Published: 17.01.12, 19:12
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31. to 6 two wrongs don't make it right. I agree
ygalg ,   israel   (01.17.12)
but thats what israeli hacker trying to teach the other side and sadly does not seems able to heed to the lesson. sorry to say but there is dissimilarity between the two. israelis came out with a warning before any retaliation occurred. the saudi authorities and even the entire islamic world did not condemn nor demand to stop the act of the saudi hacker. on the contrary, was praised and hurrayed. this is interpreted to be war. they're religiously brainwashed. and islam is the source of hate. your solution is to stay idle and let them harm us. this is why evil wins cause good people do nothing to stop it. the israeli attack happens to be moderate, in hoping the other side will stop. but if that does not helps, we cannot let them continue and in result harm our life. eventually it will take to bring down the entire net from islamic states who launched Internet attack on us.
32. unimpressed.
(01.17.12)
what is this? 1950s Jets and Sharks in a turf war? at the end of the day all these hackers are criminals at the end of the day most of these cyber attacks and cyber counterattacks ARE NOT PRODUCTIVE
33. Just hack the Saudi royal's bank accounts
Kyle ,   Southpark, CO, USA   (01.17.12)
They could feed poor Israeli families for YEARS and never notice anything missing.
34. To: No. 3
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (01.17.12)
Do you really think so? What do you think would happen if Israel were to infect Saudi's petroleum networks and refining networks with STUXNET? DUQU? TILDED? Look at the chaos Israel caused in Iran. If the Saudis don't shut down the hackers .... we will.
35. #3
(01.17.12)
mahmood, it is indeed a two way street. but, everyone and their grandmother knows that jewish israeli brains are incomparable to arab brains. i truly believe that israelis who are top notch at computers and cyber intelligence will win. they can destroy the arab web sites, banks and stock web sites for much longer than the arabs can do to israel. be warned. the two way street you envision will have israeli geniuses eventually collapse the arab world in cyber warfare. the arabs can never compete with israeli jews in that department. no way and you know it. what goes around will come around....unfortunatelly will explode in your stupid arab face.
36. WELL,WELL,WELL.........................#17
MAHMOOD ,   LONDON-UK   (01.17.12)
Haven't you heard of the latest?It is Iran which was involved in the 11th.Sept..........................not the Saudis.Make Iran a common denominator as and where you want,Sarah.How can you blame the Saudis?
37. TBers with Hebrew language Windows 7
(01.17.12)
did you know that your windows 7 was created in Egypt? Yes that right in Egypt...careful because it is possible that those Egyptians have included a tiny bit of this or that code that will turn out to be less than good for you!
38. LMAO @all these TBers who are just wannabees....
not a wannabee ,   Israel   (01.17.12)
and all they can do is write their silly comments here.
39. Sarah (#16): What Makes You Think They Haven't?
emanon ,   USA   (01.17.12)
You certainly wouldn't expect that information to made public. That would cause too much panic. It might have happened already, but no one is aware of it . . . yet.
40. #37 , wrong
will ,   WA, USA   (01.17.12)
well. you are partially right. Yet mostly wrong. All source code is housed on source code management servers. All source is tested and has quality assurance overseen by US Microsoft employees before it is compiled in the US. This falls in line with the requirement for security by the US government. That "tiny bit of code that is less than good for you" is a lie. Microsoft SDETs, QA team and lead programmers would see this bad code and FIRE any cheap contractor from Egypt that might try write in malicious code.
41. THE RESPONSE SHOULD NOT BE SIMPLY A WARNING!
ARTIE ,   PARIGI   (01.17.12)
AN ATTACK AGAINST ISRAEL'S DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE IS AN ATTACK PERIOD. A COUNTER ATTACK SHOULD NOT BE MERELY A WARNING BUT A COMPLETE DESTRUCTION OF THE ATTACKER'S TOOLS OF ENGAGEMENT! WIPE OUT SAUDI ARABIA'S ENTIRE INFRASTRUCTURE DIGITALLY, PERIOD AS A RESPONSE. IF WE HAD THE ABILITY TO NEUTRALIZE HITLER AT THE START WOULDN'T WE HAVE DONE IT?
42. go suck an egg
eran ,   israel   (01.17.12)
they want it to stop they should work to stop the attacks. they will it continue can't be nice forever!
43. God Bless the defenders of Israel
k ,   US   (01.17.12)
nothing better then when Jews fight back Jews can die like dogs while the world laughs at the Jews Or Jews can fight back
44. #36
(01.17.12)
iran may have been complicit, but those perpetrating this terror during 9/11 were all saudis. reading comprehension, mahmood? not one of your strong abilities.
45. Some ignorance here about how hackers think.
Henry from New York ,   USA   (01.17.12)
Don't you guys think that if hackers cared about it being criminal then they wouldn't be hacking in the first place? The fact is you need hackers to counter their hackers. It's a crime to shoot another person. However, you have armed criminals and other countries with armies that have guns they wish to use against you means you need police and an army otherwise they (whoever they are) will kick your butt. It might be wrong to do something, but the enemy won't care about morality and if you let what's morally correct stop you from doing what you need to do to protect your people you won't last long.
46. #38 - ORly?
Henry from New York ,   USA   (01.17.12)
47. The nations who are living in Stone Age
E,M JOrdan is Pales ,   SF   (01.17.12)
Do not need modern technology, make you minds
48. Two birds with one stone ??? ;) ,...
split ,   US   (01.17.12)
Assume that this so called "Saudi" hacker '0xOmar' is an Iranian agent, possible ? :) ,...
49. Hackers enter Saudi stock exchange
American in Israel ,   Jerusalem Israel   (01.17.12)
It is sad that the web is such an open thing since this is its beauty. I have conversed online with professionals from Iraq and other "off limits" countries. But if desructive elements like Oxmar hack into our one last zone of peace, the only language that will stop them is to attack in full force in the same way! RIGHT ON, ISRAELI HACKERS! Kol Hakavod!
50. Shows their level of intelligence
Dr Yeruham Leavitt ,   Kiriat Arba, ISRAEL   (01.17.12)
#11 BEN JABO is quite right. It takes low brainpower to challenge Israel to a cyber contest. It is as if we Israelis were to challenge the US to baseball or Canada to ice hockey. #20 Raymond in DC ,it is an accident of geology but more. The Arabs didn't know how to exploit the resources. Europeans did it for them. But with two big wars in the 20th century they were no longer able to maintain their empires, so they set up local strongmen as rulers and partners in the oil business.
51. #6, #8 Do you mean that
A ,   Belgium   (01.17.12)
if rockets are fired from gaza into Israel from schools and hospitals, wounding, possibly killing Israelis, and life in Israel is disrupted because of these attacks, than Israel has no right to defend herself and her people and attack and destroy the source of the rockets, even if it means possibly harming civilians? Luckily, no one has been hurt on either side in this cyber war, Saudi or Israeli, but thats where it seems to be heading and I for one am completely in favor of retaliation by Israel, by using any and all means, to stop these attacks, cyber or otherwise against Israel.
52. Beware of probes from the other side.
Stephen in New York   (01.17.12)
Don't show off
53. Not really funny
Gilad ,   Johannesburg SA   (01.17.12)
Id like to say its funny and nice one, but its actually not, its stupid tit for tat and its not the way to handle it. Let the authorities deal with the hacker from Saudi and leave innocent Saudis alone
54. SINCE none of their regimes
UNCLE JOE ,   CT USA   (01.17.12)
condemed it or cared to do anything about it ,and since the vast majority of their people hate ISRAEL and are happy and proud of what their little hacker has ''accomplished'' THEN LET THEM HAVE IT, LET THEM HAVE A STRONG DOZE OF THEIR OWN MEDICINE . however ,i would'nt push it TOO FAR .let that be a strong warning .focus much more on IRAN .SAUDI governement and company [arab gulf states] ,are US allies in long term conflict against thethe HEAD OF THE SNAKE ,AYATOLLAH. GOD BLESS THE HEBREW STATE .
55. PLAYING TOOTSI ,
UNCLE JOE ,   USA   (01.17.12)
just send hustler pictures through their islamic shriaa websites .that is my idea of TIT for tat . HA HA HA HA HA .
56. #30 not a - What are you doing here?
BEN JABO ,   ISRAEL   (01.17.12)
your post was the silliest of them all
57. israel hackers
joel ,   usa   (01.17.12)
the jews knew only: EYE FOR AN EYE, TOOTH FOR A TOOTH!
58. hit the saudi,s
DANNY TAWIL ,   ENGLAND   (01.17.12)
ROSS GALLEN YES HIT THE SAUDIS, AND ANYONE THAT GOES AGAINST ISRAEL, I AGREE 100 PER % WITH YOU HACK INTO THEIR UTILITIES WATER ELECTRICTY, AND GAS.
59. HACK INTO THEIR COMMPUTERS THAT CONTROL THE OIL GREAT IDEA
DANNY TAWIL ,   ENGLAND   (01.17.12)
YNET I WAS SO PROUD OF ALL THE BULDING GOING ON IN TEL-AVIV, CRANES ALL OVER. ISRAEL MEKOACH LEKOACH.
60. SARAH B YOU FOR GOT MONEY
DANNY TAWIL ,   ENGLAND   (01.17.12)
THEY HAVE MONEY BUT ARE SELFISH, INSTEAD OF HELPING THE STARVING MOSLEMS ALL OVER THE WORLD, THEY HOLD ONTO IT. CURSE THEM.
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