The conflict between Israel and Palestine has made its expression on the internet already. Thousands of net pages have been attacked lately by hackers groups from Morroco, Lebanon, Turkey and Iran. Gary Warner the director of Computer research at the University has been following these internet attacks and how they express themselves on the internet.
The attacks are called «defacing» where the internet sites original content is exchanged with a political message of some sort or another.
It is primarily smaller companies and small web sites that are prone to these attackes, and lately the Israelian domain .il has been the victim of these attacks. Also some .is domains have been exposed to same attacks lately. On the web pages victimized of these attacks you can read the following message on the front page of the site;
«.Hacked By H!CHAM
“‘H@CH-àCH'”.FUçK i$RàéL.
So Admin!! I have the remote now (*-°)
“Hà_àH” Hacked by Not H@ch From a&d one àCh The T£AM
Your security is down
MAR)HàçkeD By T£AM H@ch-àch(ROC
! M. A. R.O.C !»ÂÂÂ
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Among the israelian web sites are Galoz Electronics that has been hit by « RitualistaS GrouP Hacked your System!!! The world isn’t insurance!!! For a better world» message.
Other hackers have placed more aggressive messages that condemn the USA and Israel and places violent pictures on the «defacede» pages. There has still not been any attacks visible on the publich pages of the Israelian authorities web pages, but there are evidence that there has been trials of attacks on these servers.
The attacks towards the web pages started short time after the attacks on Gaza, and escalated just the day after with an estimate of around 10.000 web pages been hacked so far.
The amount of people involved in «defacing» really took off in 2006 after the conflicts with the comic drawings of the prophet in Denmark.  One of the «defacing»-hacker groups has increased their membership from 70 just before the conflict of comic drawings to more than 10.000 in the end of 2008. So there is a dramatic support in these activities and has now become part of the cyber war activities seen around the word wherever there is a conflict of major media interest.