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World cyber war: 19,000 French websites hacked

Hackers have targeted about 19,000 French websites since a rampage by Islamic extremists left 20 dead last week, a top French cyberdefense official said Thursday as the president tried to calm the nation’s inflamed religious tensions.

France is on edge since last week’s attacks...

Full story: http://www.streetwisejournal.com/world-cyber-war-19000-french-websites-hacked/4796/

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What an overblown story.

The attacks, mostly relatively minor denial-of-service attacks, hit sites as varied as military regiments to pizza shops but none appeared to have caused serious damage, he said.

I'm not even French or in France and my router shows blocked DoS traffic all the time.

Pesky script kiddies.

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