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Politically Motivated Cyber Attacks On The Rise
John Stith
Staff Writer
2006-02-28
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Politically motivated cyber attacks were on the rise in 2005 according to statistics released by Zone-H. The numbers of attacks from Jyhadi cyber hackers as well as the attacks of Chinese hackers on U.S. military sites figure into the study as well. The information shows the problem is only getting worse.
The organization reported an increase in politically motivated attacks and a growing hacking trend based in the Muslim community. The study noted an increase of 26.1% in defacements during the year of 2005 and there were more than 1.3 million digital attacks for 2005. Zone-H noted in its report:
In the year 2005, Zone-H accounted for 494,9888 attacks, a raise of 26.1% from the previously accounted 392,529 attacks in year 2004. Out of the 494,988 attacks, 123,644 has been on single hosts while the rest was accounted in mass-defacements.
They mentioned several other facts of note. One was the fact that in 2004, attacks mostly originated from Brazil. In 2005, many were Muslim defacers and most were based in Turkey. The most active was known as Iskorpitx, who single-handedly compromised 90,383 sites over a two year period.
Hitting the Government
One major point of interest in the report regarded hacking of government sites. In 2005, 5,435 governmental websites were hacked, up 32.4% over the 4,105 in 2004. They say the number could be higher as some government groups don't adopt the .gov or its variations as domain names. Even more noticeable was that the 34 noted intrusions into U.S. military websites and 31 hacks at NASA sites.
The report also made mention of Chinese sites getting assaulted. A political hacker called "Chinahacker" accounted for 2,801 intrusions, mostly done by one person or "cyber dissident."
The report is fairly thorough and it shows one important thing and that's the need for quality cyber security, particularly on the national levels. If military websites and NASA sites get hacked, what's the problem here? Why wouldn't our military have a more sound security system? It makes one wonder just where the military is on such matters.
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John is a staff writer for SecurityProNews covering cyber security.
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