(Daily Beast) Eli Lake - On Monday, hackers attacked websites associated with Israel's stock exchange, its two largest banks, and the national airline, El Al. The offensive was launched less than a week after a hacker published thousands of credit-card numbers he claimed to have pilfered from Israeli commercial sites. That hacker claimed to be from Saudi Arabia, but Ron Meyran, director of security for Radware, an Israeli web firm, said the attack originated from servers mainly in Europe. Bob Gourley, a former chief technology officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency, said the attack against Israeli sites was not groundbreaking in a technical sense. "It's important to keep things in context," he said. "What are they doing? They are defacing web pages; they are stealing credit cards. That's been done before."
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