A group referring to themselves as the Gaza Hacker Team launched a cyber attack on the Israel Fire and Rescue Services'
website early Friday morning, in the latest of a
string of cyber-terror attacks against Israeli interests.
The same group hacked into Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon's website last week. In Friday's attack the group placed a crossed out picture of Ayalon with footprints superimposed over his face on the Fire and Rescue Services' site.
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Following the attack
on Ayalon's personal site last week, the deputy foreign minister said
that breaches of Israel’s cyberspace are a breach of sovereignty similar
to terrorism and should be treated as such.
He also referred to the recent cyber theft of thousands of Israeli
credit card numbers, saying it was a warning sign, but that Israel – as
one of most advanced countries in the world in terms of cyber security –
knew how to protect itself.
Israel needed to take an example from the US, which recently declared
that it reserved the right to respond to cyberspace attacks – seen as
acts of war – with conventional weapons, Ayalon said.
Herb Keinon contributed to this report