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- fhngoutlawstar, on 08/31/2008, -1/+31I hope this isn't some ploy to get people to vote for the i-Patriot Act O.o. Been noticing more and more of these news threads...
- dn11, on 08/31/2008, -1/+25that's what you get from running windows 98 in a war zone.
- stopbrorape, on 08/31/2008, -0/+19Encrypt your ***** Iraq.
- chillypacman, on 08/31/2008, -0/+15The media's idea of a good story: 'Just add Al-Qaeda'
- dn11, on 08/31/2008, -0/+12stop browsing those shady porn sites with IE 3.0 Iraq.
- sprooj, on 08/31/2008, -0/+10It wasn't al-Qaeda it was 4chan.
- JohnnySoftware, on 08/30/2008, -2/+11meh
- OfNumbers, on 08/31/2008, -0/+8MSM has a ghetto love affair with words like hacker.
- 4321234, on 08/31/2008, -0/+6The dumbass Iraqi would just have copied the link to his clipboard, went to the website, found the proper directory for packages opropos to his distro and preferred package manager, hoping like hell he wouldn't have to compile from sourc, then opened a terminal, su'd to root, cd'd to his /etc directory and opened his repo list in vim, added the dir with the correct url and metadata, and just pressed escape and typed :wq! then started his package manager and refreshed his repos. Then updated.
Instead of clicking it. - c0nrad, on 08/31/2008, -0/+6i bet al-qaeda has some sick internet out in those caves
- arjie, on 08/31/2008, -0/+5Wouldn't have helped, the fellow got a popup asking to update his computer. If he thought it was legitimate, he is likely to have allowed it to escalate privileges.
That said, it's possible it was one of those screenshots of a Windows XP dialog box that are actually linked images. - fuzzybeard, on 08/31/2008, -0/+5So...is anyone else expecting suicide logic bombers?
- ptFoe, on 08/31/2008, -0/+5Balmer battling Al Qaeda with chairs
- dattaway, on 08/31/2008, -0/+4 If the RIAA can survive a day, they can too.
- Virgule, on 08/31/2008, -0/+4I refuse to read anything about "hackers" from the major media outlets. Therefore, (blindly) buried as inaccurate but Im sure Im right (at least a little)
- inactive, on 08/31/2008, -5/+8f'ing foreigners
- KataLieb, on 08/31/2008, -0/+3*****!
Unless NSA/Pentagon/DoD calls themselves the Al Qaeda these days, as they honestly should... - jayneff, on 03/30/2009, -1/+43 ***** pages? with the 3rd page having 2 sentences? Pathetic
Maj. Ahmed Khathem, the head of Iraq's newly formed cybercrimes division, sits in a borrowed office, at a borrowed desk, working on a laptop borrowed from one of his subordinates.
It is his unit's lone computer, highlighting the country's vulnerability to a community of Iraqi hackers defacing websites and attempting to hack into sensitive internal networks.
Iraq's government is engaged in a bloody struggle against al-Qaeda, and its computers make a prime target for global terror networks that have added hacking to their arsenal.
"We could have the most powerful anti-hacking force in the world, but we'd still have no computers, so we couldn't do anything," says Ali Hussein, one of 12 computer science graduates added to the cybercrime team last month. "The government thinks about guns, tanks and raiding houses. Hackers just aren't a priority."
Computer usage in Iraq has mushroomed since the U.S. invasion in 2003. During the Saddam Hussein era, Internet access was largely forbidden in the country, and economic sanctions made computers difficult to obtain. The Interior Ministry, which had no computers connected to the Internet in 2003, has 5,000 today.
"Now, the government is starting to use computers everywhere, but these computers aren't protected," Khathem says.
In May, an innocuous pop-up window flashed onto the screen of an employee at the Ministry of Interior, Khathem says. The window asked if he wanted to install updates to his computer.
Had he clicked "OK," he would have given a hacker who calls himself the "Iraqi Hacker" access to reams of sensitive data, including e-mails and addresses of the ministry's thousands of security officers.
"If that information had fallen into the hands of terrorists, it would have been a catastrophe," says Lt. Alaa Hussein, another member of the ministry's anti-hacking team.
Fortunately, the employee was savvy enough to alert the cybercrimes division.
The United States has seized hard drives in Afghanistan and Iraq with information on sabotaging oil pipelines through hacking, according to Paul Kurtz, a former member of President Bush's National Security Council and co-author of the national strategy for cybersecurity.
Iraq's most prolific hacker is known as the "Iraqi Diver," an unidentified resident of Wasit Province, south of Baghdad, who has hacked into nearly 1,500 websites since 2005, according to Zone-H.org, an independent website that tracks and verifies hacker activity worldwide.
To date, the Iraqi Diver has usually refrained from causing permanent damage to sites, defacing them instead by leaving behind messages insulting President Bush or calling on the United States to leave Iraq. The list of sites the Iraqi Diver has broken into include some of Iraq's most sensitive ministries, such as the ministries of Interior, Electricity and Communications, and a handful of Iraqi banks, according to Zone-H.
Though there is no evidence the Iraqi Diver seeks anything other than notoriety, the activity shows the Iraqi government's vulnerability to far more sinister attacks, according to Ivor Rankin, a security expert from Symantec, one of the world's leading computer security companies.
The activity in Iraq comes amid an exponential rise in hacking worldwide in recent months. Consequences have been more troubling than mere embarrassment for the victims, Rankin says. Some of the attacks have had connections to terror networks.
In February, a New York City bank approached cybersecurity expert Alan Paller for help after the FBI tracked money stolen from the bank back to terrorist organizations based in the Middle East, Paller says. He works for the Washington-based SANS Institute, which teaches banks, the FBI and other organizations how to protect their networks.
Imam Samudra, one of the convicted plotters of the Bali bombing in Indonesia in 2002, devoted a chapter of his recent autobiography to hacking.
"If the hacking is successful," Samudra wrote, "get ready to yield windfall income."
"The terrorists see this as a great money maker," Paller says.
For Iraq, there is perhaps a silver lining in this story, says Bruce Schneier, the head of IT security for British Telecom and the author of several books on cybercrime.
"There are hackers in Iraq. That's fantastic. It implies a level of normalcy I didn't know was there," Schneier says. "If Iraqis can be hackers, it means they have food, shelter and clothing, and they're not terrified for their lives." - Meocross, on 08/31/2008, -0/+3was about to smash you with the shovel untill i saw the /sarc nice save.
- KataLieb, on 08/31/2008, -0/+2Rest assured, IT IS.
- Sil369, on 08/31/2008, -1/+3+ Al-Qaeda
- inactive, on 08/31/2008, -4/+6I could've sworn this was an Onion article...
- KataLieb, on 08/31/2008, -0/+2Let me correct you:
"...just destabilizing the country to give them justification to NEVER LEAVE." - jftitan, on 08/31/2008, -0/+2Oh you are so going to love this.... get this... They have computer problems... computers with Windows on them. Lets see them start calling US for tech support!
- hugolp, on 08/31/2008, -1/+3Why I just keep on listening about hackers hacking all kind of computers in mainstream media lately and not beforre? Anyone wants to aporve some kind of restrictive law?
- pigfister, on 08/31/2008, -1/+2al-Qaeda
omg surely by now this is compete bull ***** and its the western governments and corporations just destabilizing the country to give them justification to intervene. - t3rmv3locity, on 08/31/2008, -2/+3Iraq uses Halliburton/KBR's OS. It's just Windows ME (there is the source of the hacker problem), but they have a no-bid contract so they charge 1500$ for each copy.
- inactive, on 08/31/2008, -0/+1Bull-*****-crap accordint to my book. They just want to make the internet more china like... and they're going to get away with it at this pace...
- inactive, on 08/31/2008, -0/+1http://www.iraqi-diver.net/
thats iraqi diver website
i dont think he's a terrorist , most of those people under 20 years old
and know how to hack from other arabic site
he just another ***** xD - darkknightita, on 08/31/2008, -1/+2Or just click 'Print' at the bottom of the article ;)
Anyway, I didn't notice it was a 3-pages article until I read your comment. Call it "interesting"... ;) - inactive, on 08/31/2008, -2/+3*nix......
- mr5150, on 08/31/2008, -1/+2The article is a riot of a read.....either it is total propaganda by the MSM in which case means bogus or America is failing dismally and should pack it's ***** up and get the ***** out due to incompetence.
Me thinks bring the good boys and girls home and let Allah sort out those left behind cause the entire Iraq war is nothing more than a totally very expensive fiasco. - BrokenCircle, on 08/31/2008, -0/+1All three of them.
- noPCtoday, on 08/31/2008, -3/+4Windows 98 is the BEST system! Vista sucks! UAC sucks! All my games won't run on Vista, I get BSOD every ***** hour.
/sarc - m4csrgh3yk3v, on 08/31/2008, -1/+2Just get Ramzi bitches!
- pigfister, on 09/01/2008, -0/+1yes sorry that what i meant.
- inactive, on 09/01/2008, -0/+1Minesweeper
- pigfister, on 09/01/2008, -0/+1have you read the 9/11 report, do you know why ppl hate america and the west?
never forget Rachel Corrie murdered by an Israel bulldozer.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Rachel+Corr ...
Military AID is free weapons, 30 billion $ worth for Israel on top of the $24 billion America has already given, to continue, to illegally occupy Palestine and slaughter its inhabitants paid for by the American tax $!
In the official American 9/11 report Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's main motivation behind the attack was Americas continued support for ISRAEL this is in black and white freely available to anyone that can read! The pdf 9/11 report, its very heavy reading but i can help *5.2 The Planes Operation report page 154 about half way down "U.S. Support for Israel"*
http://www.9-11commission.gov
Report download page: http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/911/report/index.ht ...
There was the public 9/11 commission on c-span stating that the main reason for the 9/11 attacks was the continued support for Israel in their quest to cleans the occupied state "Palestine" C-Span video can be found on youtube and here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1bm2GPoFfg&feature ...
Israel Violates UN Security Council, Occupying Syria's Land with Noam Chomsky: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vj45865jpE
Analysis: New US-Israeli arms deal (BBC) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/69499 ...
FTA:
*****Thursday, 16 August 2007, 16:02 GMT 17:02 UK
This new agreement sets increased levels of US military aid for Israel over the coming decade.
In broad terms, Israel will receive a total of some $30bn (£14.8bn) in military aid, a significant increase over $24bn (£12bn) it received over the past 10 years.
US ARMS AID TO ISRAEL
$30bn over 10 years
1st payment of $2.55bn in 2008
Annual payments rising to $3.1bn by 2011
26.3% can be spent in Israel
Rest must be spent on US arms*****
DON'T YOU LOVE HOW THE USA MAKES GIVING THEIR TYPE OF "AID" (WEAPONS), SOUND LIKE THEY ARE HANDING OUT MEDICINE AND FOOD! - inactive, on 08/31/2008, -1/+2Media Top Ten
10 : Al-Qaeda
9: Osama
8: war on Terror
7: insurgency
6: Defending against Terror
5: Terrorist Network
4: September 11
3: 911
2: Defending your freedom
1: Protecting your rights to freedom - solid12345, on 08/31/2008, -0/+1Al-Queda is a misnomer, it is really just a loose coalition of radicalized Muslims but we need a politically-correct word for it.
Go ask the Egyptian and Syrian governments about the Muslim Brotherhood. - MtheoryX, on 08/31/2008, -1/+2Buried for "Me thinks."
- lilredsammy, on 08/31/2008, -0/+1Misleading header. Sounds like terrorist computers are being hacked by others.
- 4321234, on 08/31/2008, -0/+1Buried for "Me thinks."
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Me thinks bring the good boys and girls home and let Allah sort out those left behind cause the entire Iraq war is nothing more than a totally very expensive fiasco
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