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Chapter 4

When Who Tells the Best Story Wins

Cyber and Information Operations in the Middle East

Outline

Hijacking Noncombatant Civilian IP Addresses to Help the War Effort: The Israel-Hezbollah “July War” of 2006

The Information Operations of Hezbollah

Hezbollah Hijacks IP Addresses

Civilians in the Cyber Melee: Operation Cast Lead

IO and Cyber Warfare in the 2008 Israel-Hamas War

Suggested Further Reading

Information in this Chapter

• Cyber operations during the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war

• The utility of cyber operations in information operations

• IP address hijacking and CYOP

• Cybercortical warfare

In Chapters 2 and 3, the incidents of cyber attack were somewhat one-sided in the virtual world. The Russians attacked Estonia and Georgia ...

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