Editor's note: Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin. is a weekly online, subscription intelligence news service from the creator of WorldNetDaily.com – a journalist who has been developing sources around the world for the last 25 years.
A website devoted to shutting down Internet supporters of terrorism has itself been shut down by denial-of-service attacks directed from Malaysia and Saudi Arabia, according to a report in Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.
Internet Haganah, an Israeli-based website that works to uncover and shut down terrorist-sponsored Internet entities, was attacked by hackers beginning Thursday. As of yesterday, the site was still offline. Editor's Note: As of early today, the site was still offline, but a temporary page is now viewable.
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Supporters of a number of al Qaida-affiliated forums registered to Saudis and running in Malaysia declared "an online jihad against Haganah" after eight such terror-related sites lost their third-party DNS service, according to a spokesman for the organization. The result was that the sites dropped offline, and four of them remain offline.
GeoCities sites have been used to distribute the attack tools, and a site at Everyone's Internet posted graphics that show not just how to use the tools, but specifically how to use them to attack the site.
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Hosting Matters has done its best to keep the site online in the face of an increasing level of hostile traffic, but there's only so much one can do unless you can get someone at the backbone level to block the incoming attacks, explained Internet Haganah.
"The only long-term solution for us is to either go underground or distribute the site as mirrors located at multiple locations," said a source at Haganah, which means "defense." The group claims it does not have money to overcome the attacks.
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While it is against the law to hack sites, a spokesman said: "The odds of the Feds doing anything to bring the people responsible to justice are virtually nil."
According to Andrew Weisburd, Internet Haganah has helped shut down 65 terrorism-related websites in the U.S. and overseas by contacting government officials and hosting companies. Now the organization itself has been shut down by illegal attacks.
Internet Haganah, formed after the U.S. terrorism attacks in 2001, tracks about 50 terrorism-related websites, he said.
Internet Haganah's members are U.S. and Israeli counter-terrorism and Internet experts, Weisburd said.
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