Israeli websites under heavy attack

 

The Israeli government said that its websites logged about 44 million hacking attempts following the bombardment of Gaza Strip since Wednesday.

Yuval Steinitz, the country’s Finance Minister, said that an unnamed government website was successfully hacked only once, but it  was back online after 10 minutes.

Government websites in Israel are typically hit hundreds of times in a typical day, the Finance Ministry said.

Websites related to national defense of Israel were hit the hardest although the site of the country’s president also logged 10 million hacking attempts. The Foreign Ministry site was hacked 7 million times while the prime minister’s site experienced about 3 million attempts.

Although sources of the attacks came from around the world, most of them originated from Israel and Palestinian territories.

Minister Steinitz said: “The ministry’s computer division will continue to block the millions of cyber attacks. We are enjoying the fruits of our investment in recent years in developing computerized defense systems.”

He has reportedly instructed the ministry to use back up systems to counter the hacking attempts on government websites.