A weekend cyberattack campaign targeting Israeli government websites failed to cause serious disruption, officials said Sunday. The attacks followed warnings in the name of the group Anonymous that it was launching a massive hacking assault to protest Israeli policy toward the Palestinians.
Posters using the name of the hacking group Anonymous had warned they would launch a massive attack on Israeli sites in a strike they called (hash)OpIsrael starting April 7. Some said they were launching the assault in "solidarity" with the Palestinians.
An Israeli government spokesman issued a statement saying sites were operating properly as usual. It said an Education Ministry site was down temporarily due to a technical issue unrelated to hacking attempts.
Dolev who also serves as Chairman of the Inter-University-Communication-Center which connects Israeli universities and research branches of companies like IBM, said 40 security experts from the center "are looking forward to play with the attackers."