terrorists have developed several new techniques to communicate with each online by leaving coded messages on websites like ebay and reddit, claims a new book the shocking discovery made by intelligence officers and code breakers in israel, britain and the united states revealed that seemingly innocuous chats are often much more, according to new sections in the book gideon's spies: the secret history of the mossad code breakers found that al qaeda is now using a technique to encrypt its messages in goods offered for sale on ebay communication: terrorists have developed several new techniques to communicate with each online by leaving coded messages on websites like ebay and reddit  secretive: code breakers have found that al qaeda is now using a technique to encrypt its messages in goods offered for sale on ebay  meanwhile, israeli intelligence officers who spent time tracking the internet message board reddit found more than once, that a terrorist used hexadecimal characters and prime numbers as code after the messages were decoded, they sometimes indicated an attack was being planned or even about to happen, according to excerpts printed in the new york post terrorists are even hiding messages in 'x rated pornographic pictures which conceal documents and orders for the next target,' one intelligence source told author gordon thomas in a fight back, mi6 in london and mossad have recruited linguist specialists in arabic, urdu and pashto to translate the online magazines that both al qaeda and isis are publishing with instructions this, they hope will infiltrate a message about a planned attack before it takes place in the wake of the brutal charlie hebdo massacre in paris, both isis and al qaeda have been concealing messages to their followers both mossad, the israeli spy agency, and mi6 in london confirm that there has been an increase in this type of traffic online, according to the book cyber unit: the eleventh director of mossad, tamir pardo, pictured, determined that israel would use a cyber unit to avoid experiencing an event similar to the attacks on the world trade center in 2001  electronic war: israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said that the country's electronic battles against cyberattacks were regarded as israel's most important defense  mossad: the front page of the website for israel's spy agency says it sees the 'invisible' and does the 'impossible' however, when an attack appears imminent in a particular country, mossad sends details to that nation's intelligence service's cybercommand by working with each other in unison, intelligence agencies hope to  prevent future attacks cyber units worldwide are becoming increasingly important in the fight against terror a number of the most skilled cryptologists in the mossad unit for example, have mastered steganography, how to conceal secret information within a digital file cryptologists have the ability to explore an area inaccessible to the search engines of google, yahoo and bing called the dark side, or dark web this no go zone contains billions of web pages and is estimated to be 5,000 times larger than any other on the internet much of this information is detailed in a 2015 version of a book by author gordon thomas called 'gideon's spies: the secret history of the mossad' it delves into the clandestine world of israel's spy agency, the mossad mossad is using its new cyberwarfare department to track threats and attack iran's nuclear capacity the eleventh director of the spy agency, tamir pardo, was determined that israel would not experience an event similar to the attacks on the world trade center in new york in 2001 this decision came after it was revealed that an intercepted phone message by the american national security agency hinted at the 9/11 attack on the world trade center and the pentagon   but it was caught too late pardo understood the importance of cyberwarfare after undergoing training at the nsa he was backed by israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu who told him that their electronic battles against cyberattacks were regarded as israel's most important defense meanwhile, iain lobban, the head of britain's government communication headquarters revealed the country's ministry of defense was once targeted over 1,000 times a month he identified the attacks were mostly coming from the tenth bureau, the highly secret department of china's people liberation army responsible for science and technology in the united states, general keith b alexander, the head of the pentagon's cyber command, confirmed that 'our targets are enemy military command centers that we can reach from cyberspace'
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al qaeda  encrypts its messages in goods offered for sale on ebay, according to new claims from the book gideon’s spies: the secret history of the mossad  author says other messages left on board reddit used hexadecimal characters and prime numbers as code  decoded messages often indicated when an attack was being planned  intelligence agencies in israel, the uk and us are collaborating in a joint effort against cyber crime  cyber crime units have to venture into area inaccessible to the search engines of google, yahoo and bing called 'the dark side or dark web'