A CYBER attack on the UAE’s government websites from Egypt-based hackers has been successfully thwarted by the UAE’s Telecommunications Authority (TRA).
The TRA said its Computer Emergency Response Team ‘neutralised’ the attack and repaired the limited damage from the ‘cyber-strike’, which officials believe was launched in connection with events surrounding the ousting of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.
Mohammed Nasser Al Ghanim, the Director General of TRA, said the Authority had contacted the relevant Egyptian authorities to coordinate the efforts of the two countries in order to catch the cyber-terrorists.
“We agreed to provide the Egyptian authorities with a list of IP addresses from which the cyber-infiltration attempts originated,” Al Ghanim said.
