Thousands of card details being published, bank and financial sites suffering DDoS attacks.

This may seem to be the thing of a Hollywood movie, but its playing out for real now. UAE computer emergency response team have already issued a highly critical notification

It looks like the Middle East beginning to wage a cyber war, with both sides ready to release hacked information to the masses. It will be interesting to see how this plays out over the next few weeks; perhaps this is the future of conflict in the Middle East.

http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/17/israeli-hackers-attack-saudi-uae-stock-exchange-websites/

http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=254265

http://www.itp.net/587667-israeli-hackers-disable-uae-bank-website