Sunday, December 30, 2007

AHMADINEJAD'S BLOG, VIRUS SPIES ON ISRAELI COMPUTER

A word to the wise is sufficient. For anyone venturing to Islamist sites, take all precautions such as working behind a router, use a good firewall and anti-virus software. Or use a Mac. so far Macs are pretty resistant to malware.
FROM ANSAMED.INFO:
MIDEAST: AHMADINEJAD'S BLOG, VIRUS SPIES ON ISRAELI COMPUTER
(ANSAmed) - TEL AVIV, DECEMBER 28 - A surprise is awaiting the people who wish to read from Israel the blog of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (ahmadinejad.ir). Israeli experts warn that on the opening page of the website is installed a software able to identify the computers located in the Jewish state, which infects them with a 'Trojan horse', or a programme capable of draining their data. The information collected in this way, the experts add, is forwarded to servers placed in different locations: China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and at an Iranian university. According to the experts, quoted by the commercial broadcasting television 'Channel 10', it is a sophisticated Trojan horse, which does not damage the Israeli computers and was supposedly developed with the aim of collecting intelligence information. The cybernetic 'Trojan horse', allegedly launched by Ahmadinejad's blog, was detected as early as August, when it attacked computers in Israel and Spain. The following day, Israeli hackers retaliated with a focused attack on Ahmadinejad's site, blocking it for a while.