Massive DDoS Attack Knocked Israeli Government Websites Offline

A number of websites belonging to the Israeli government were felled in a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Monday, rendering the portals inaccessible for a short period of time.
“In the past few hours, a DDoS attack against a communications provider was identified,” the Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD) said in a tweet. “As a result, access to several websites, among them