Israel MSN, Bing, Skype, Live and Intel Defaced by Pakistani Hackers

After Anonymous declared a war on the Israeli internet, a separate group of apparently Pakistani hackers has defaced at least two Microsoft-run websites. Visiting the Israeli versions of MSN and Bing brings up an anti-Israel diatribe

Defaced page said: I am writing on the behalf of all Pakistani and all Muslims.  Your war on GAZA will make you cry blood and let the next few days prove that you!

The Israeli Skype website, meanwhile, is unavailable. Though the ideological justification is similar, this doesn't appear to be related to #OpIsrael, an Anonymous-affiliated offensive meant as payback after Israel threatened to cut off internet access in Gaza. Instead, it's credited to a number of hackers, including ZombiE_KsA and the Pakistan Cyber Army.

The hackers also mock a statement from Israeli Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz, who recently said the country’s security systems have been very effective at blocking cyber attacks. He told the media on Sunday that 44 million hacking attempts have been made on Israeli government Web sites since Wednesday and that so far only one was taken down, but was up and running after 10 minutes of downtime. Steinitz was quoted by Reuters as saying:

Zone-h of all deface sites are available here