Hackers attack Microsoft Corp's new Israeli site

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WIRE:03/05/2000 12:55:00 ET Hackers attack Microsoft Corp's new Israeli site JERUSALEM, March 5 (Reuters) - The Israeli Internet service provider Internet Gold said on Sunday hackers had briefly paralysed its new Israeli site with Microsoft Corp on Saturday. Internet Gold's chief executive, Eli Holtzman, said hackers had bombarded Microsoft's new Israeli site, www.msn.co.il, with so much traffic that slowed access for about an hour.

He said hackers had channelled the traffic through Internet Gold with the aim of harming another Web site, which he declined to name, located outside Israel.

"We are in contact with (the company) to prevent such an event in the future," Holtzman told Reuters.

Internet Gold has passed information regarding the attack to local police, he said.

"We know most of the details, including where it came from. Our site was down less than an hour and we will make technical changes to make such attacks much harder," Holtzman said.

He would not say whether the attack came from inside Israel or from abroad, but he stressed that the cyber invasion broke through a single unprotected Internet gateway and did not collapse network security barriers known as firewalls.

In February, a wave of hacker attacks took down popular Internet sites including Yahoo!, Amazon.com and news site CNN.com

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-- Martin Thompson (mthom1927@aol.com), March 05, 2000


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