http://www.timesofisrael.com/us-firm-helps-hamas-netanyahu-keep-hackers-at-bay/
By David Shamah
The Times of Israel
July 14, 2014
There isn’t much Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas have in
common — but one thing they do agree on is how to keep their websites safe
from hackers. Both rely on a web service called CloudFlare, which helps
customers avoid hacking and denial of service attacks.
CloudFlare enables users to mask their location and Internet connection
service providers. As a result, would-be hackers don’t which server to
attack, so they can’t try to pull a site down by hacking into it or
attempting a denial of service attack.
Critics complain that CloudFlare provides protection equally to nations,
legitimate concerns, criminals, and terrorists.
As Hamas fires hundreds of rockets at Israel, and the Israeli air force
hits back at Gaza, hackers sympathetic to Hamas have over the past several
days hacked into numerous Israeli websites, as is common during periods of
increased tension. Several days ago, for example, anti-Israel hackers
defaced one of the most popular Israeli Facebook pages, StatusHunter,
replacing the content with a slideshow purporting to show how the IDF was
making Gazans suffer.
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