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By THE JERUSALEM POST STAFF
LONDON
Oct. 1, 2002

Pro-Islamic hacker group Unix Security Guards increased its activity
tenfold in September to highlight the Palestinian cause and show
solidarity with the Arab world as tensions rise in regard to the US
conflict with Iraq, according to computer security firm mi2g.

USG made 207 attacks on corporate and government computer systems
worldwide in September, compared with 21 in August, mi2g said in a
press release issued Tuesday.

Overall hacker attacks rose in the month, as well, the company said.

The number of attacks for September was 11,080, bringing the total for
the first nine months of 2002 to 42,185, a third greater than all of
2001.

"We have seen the close of the worst quarter in terms of overt digital
attacks and the financial market indices in over a decade," said mi2g
chairman D.K. Matai. "The turmoil in both cases is in part being
influenced by the rising threat of armed conflict in the Middle East.
There is no indication that the turbulence and volatility has come to
an end yet."

USG consists of five member sub-groups: rD, Inkubus, Egyptian|Fighter,
hein and ShellCode. They are located in the Middle East and Eastern
Europe, mi2g said.

USG told mi2g in an e-mail statement that its aim is "to show the
world how our brothers are suffering in Iraq, Palestine, etc and how
Israel turned into some cold blooded killing machine[s]."

Recent messages left by USG on computer systems focus on criticism of
US and UK involvement in Iraq, condemnation of Israeli activities in
the West Bank and Gaza, and Indian involvement in Kashmir.

According to the security firm, the hackers tampered with data on
online systems, and created denial of service attacks, which slow or
shut down computer systems.

USG also claimed to penetrate Arab and Islamic sites with the goal of
telling site administrators how to make them less vulnerable.

Out of the 110 victim countries in September, the most attacked were
the US (5,299), Brazil (905), Denmark (532), the UK (478) and Germany
(406). The company did not provide data on attacks on Israeli
computers.

mi2g defines overt digital attacks as being incidents when a hacker
group has gained unauthorized access to an online system and has made
modifications to any of its publicly visible components, such as a
broadcast, service routine, payment, data collection or print out.

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