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New Media Upend Traditional Thinking About Wartime Information Flow and Raise Cybersecurity Concerns

The latest battleground in the ongoing Gaza conflict exists beyond the reach of rocket fire and warplanes. In the shadows of the escalating violence, both sides have turned to an arsenal of new media tools, such as YouTube, Twitter and the blogosphere, in an increasingly sophisticated 21st century propaganda war. Since Israeli airstrikes on Hamas targets began a week ago, an American cybercrimes expert said thousands of Israeli and American Web sites have been defaced by radical Muslim... Full Story
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