The Pakistani Spectator

Hackers have taken down two high-profile targets as they continue their ongoing Web attacks in support of Palestine, defacing Web sites run by the U.S. Army and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization .The attacks on Thursday took down the Web sites for the U.S. Army Military District of Washington and the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, according to Zone-H, a Web site that tracks defacement activity.The NATO site is now back online, but the U.S. Army site was still offline Friday morning. A version of the Web page cached by Google Inc. reads, “Stop attacks u israel and usa ! you cursed nations ! one day muslims will clean the world from you !” NATO didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Using what’s known as a SQL injection attack, the group also defaced the Web site of the Joint Force Headquarters of the National Capital Region, which handles military incident response for the Washington area.

All of these attacks are credited to a Turkish hacking group called Agd_Scorp/Peace Crew.

This group has claimed many Web hacks over the past few months, including Microsoft Corp.’s Web sites in Canada, Ireland and China; Royal Dutch Shell PLC; Harvard University; and National Basketball Association Inc., Warner said in a blog posting.
“The group is now calling themselves ‘Peace Crew’ .
As tensions in Gaza have intensified over the past few weeks, loosely organized hacking groups from countries such as Morocco, Turkey and Iran have defaced thousands of Web pages. This latest wave of attacks has mostly focused on Israeli sites, particularly easy targets belonging to individuals or small businesses. However, some high-profile targets have been hit too, such as news site Ynetnews.com.

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