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By Steve Huff 9/19/12 6:05pm

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Muslim cleric Izz ad-Din al-Qassam (Wikimedia)

Muslim Cyber Fighters Attack Chase Bank in ‘Operation Ababil’

The Cyber fighters of Izz ad-din Al qassam, a group of cyber-attackers who have targeted Bank of America and the New York Stock Exchange, allegedly struck J.P. Morgan Chase today. Fox Business reported on the site outage at Chase.com and consulted with Flashpoint Partners about the problems. Flashpoint told Fox that Chase’s problems were probably due to a “sustained denial of service attack.”

The religiously-motivated hackers, who claim they are responding to the anti-Muslim video, Innocence of Muslims, have published a new Pastebin page claiming credit for the Chase attack: Read More

By Steve Huff 9/18/12 4:19pm

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Bank of America, one of the victims of Operation Ababil (Screengrab)

Muslim Cyberfighters Claim Responsibility for Bank of America and NYSE Hack in Retaliation for Movie

Bank of America customers have had a hard time accessing the bank’s website today–and a claim posted by a Muslim hacker group on Pastebin.com may have something to do with that. Reuters has reported that the “scope of the problem could not immediately be learned” but BoA customers across the country were having similar problems.

In a Pastebin post made sometime Tuesday, a group claiming to speak “In the name of Allah the companionate (sic) the merciful” wrote the following: Read More

By Steve Huff 9/14/12 6:32pm

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Still from a trailer for Innocence of Muslims

Google Refuses White House Plea to Remove Controversial Anti-Muslim Video

Google will not delete an inflammatory video currently playing a role in Muslim protests around the world, in spite of a take-down request from the White House.

The search giant is only censoring Innocence of Muslims in India, Indonesia, Egypt and Libya, where violent and deadly protests have broken out following the video’s translation into Arabic. Reuters reports on the company’s legalistic explanation for not just wiping the video completely from the web: Read More

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