Blog Posts Tagged with "Israel"
Israel’s Cyber Defenses Protect Government Sites from 44 Million Attacks
December 11, 2012 Added by:Dan Dieterle
Israel’s cyber defense is hard at work blocking millions of incoming cyber attacks. There have been millions of hacking attempts against government sites that have been intercepted with reportedly only one successfully taking down it’s target. And that for only a few minutes...
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Israel vs Iran.The strategic importance of 5° domain,the cyberspace
October 31, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
Time passes and the dispute between Iran and Israel is becoming increasingly more complex to manage. Apparently everything seems crystallized waiting for one of the contenders make the first move, in fact, both states are boosting investment in the development of their cyber capabilities...
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Potential Collateral Damage from an Israeli First Strike on Iran
August 26, 2012 Added by:Richard Stiennon
Carbon whiskers unleashed to disable transformers? Oh yes. Just a few grams got released into the atmosphere and shorted out transformers throughout the Pacific Northwest. I do not like the idea of kilograms of this escaping the target area. It could be decades before power grids are free of this menace...
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How Will Israel Attack Iran?
August 18, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
It is expected that in the first phase of an offensive against Iran, Israel will conduct a cyber attack of impressive dimensions with the intent to paralyze the country by knocking out the Internet, all communications and other critical infrastructure. This is the new way to engage in a war...
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Israeli Operations Against Iran Will Begin with Cyber Attack
August 17, 2012 Added by:Joel Harding
"Silverstein claims to have obtained an Israeli briefing document outlining the Jewish state’s war plans against Iran, which, according to him, include the launching of dozens of missiles, an aerial attack, a sophisticated cyber attack and even the assassination of senior Iranian military and intelligence officials..."
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Yourikan Claims Ninety-One Iranian Websites Hacked
August 07, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Pro-Israeli hacker Yourikan (you-r!-k@n) is claiming to have hacked and defaced as many as ninety-one Iranian websites including government, education and business targets in protest of Iran's continued pursuit of nuclear weapons and support for terrorist activities targeting Israel...
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Flame Trojan Ignites Cyberwar Chatter
May 29, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"Flame shares many characteristics with notorious cyber weapons Duqu and Stuxnet: while its features are different, the geography and careful targeting of attacks coupled with the usage of specific software vulnerabilities seems to put it alongside those familiar super-weapons currently deployed in the Middle East.."
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Iranian Double Agents Planted Stuxnet in Nuclear Facilities
April 17, 2012 Added by:Dan Dieterle
“Using a person on the ground would greatly increase the probability of computer infection, as opposed to passively waiting for the software to spread through the computer facility. 'Iranian double agents' would have helped to target the most vulnerable spots in the system...”
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Syrian Drama and the Impact on Cyberspace
February 07, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
Cyberspace is comparable to a stormy sea in which you navigate by sight, and where the scenarios are changing rapidly in an unpredictable way by the presence of uncontrolled entities such as cyber hacktivists, in addition to cyber armies set up by the main world powers...
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Hidebound Governments Unprepared for Cyber Threats
February 05, 2012 Added by:James Colbert
“Even if they brilliantly secure their networks, the greatest threat that organizations face is that they are still vulnerable if their minimum wage security guards are disgruntled or their physical access control systems can be easily bypassed...”
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All Out Cyber War: Analysis of the Middle-Eastern Conflict
January 29, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
You just can't avoid it, so I had to write it. The escalation of rhetoric has gone past media hype and has spilled over into mainstream politics, and now onto the lips of people who should really know better than to perpetuate some of this madness...
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Take That Israel! All Your SCADA's Are Belong to Us!
January 20, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
The SCADA were not in default state for passwords, and in general did not seem to be important systems - like government or large power company hardware. Hell, for that matter, none were even water facilities, which I should think in a desert would be kinda important, no?
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Israeli and Muslim Hackers Bring Knives to Gun Fight
January 19, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
There was the dropping of the SCADA passwords recently, and that is more along the lines of doing something. As I wrote recently about cyberwar, the real aegis is to damage infrastructure, supply chain failure, and in the end invade or conduct military operations...
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Israeli Hackers Counterhack and Steal Saudi Credit Cards
January 10, 2012 Added by:Headlines
In a tit for tat type move, Pro-Israeli hackers breached Saudi shopping sites and that they have thousands of Saudi credit cards. “If the leaks continue, we will cause severe damage to the privacy of Saudi citizens,” one of the Israeli’s stated...
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On the Israeli Credit Card Breach
January 08, 2012 Added by:Danny Lieberman
The biggest vulnerability of PCI DSS is that it’s about 10 years behind the curve. When people in the PCI DSS Security Council in Europe confess to never having heard of DLP and when the standard places an obsessive emphasis on anti-virus, you know you're still in Kansas...
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Iran Invests Heavily in Developing Cyberwarfare Capabilities
December 19, 2011 Added by:Headlines
The Jerusalem Post reports Iran has recently decided to invest somewhere near one billion dollars to increase both cyber defensive and offensive capabilities. The news comes on the heels of reports that Iran may now be in possession of several advanced U.S. military reconnaissance drones...
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