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The Times of Israel

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Topic: cybersecurity

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March 17, 2013
2:14 am

Udi Shani speaks at the Herzliya Conference Monday (Photo credit: Courtesy Herzliya Conference)

‘Facebook, Twitter are the true leaders of the Arab Spring’

Due to social media, Syria, Egypt and Lebanon are no longer countries in the conventional sense, says top defense official

By David Shamah

March 15, 2013
12:09 pm

Nir Goldshlager (photo credit: Courtesy)

The Israeli hacker who saved Facebook — twice

Nir Goldshlager found a serious security breach in the social media network — and then found a hole in the ostensibly repaired code, too

By David Shamah

March 3, 2013
6:59 am

Members of the winning team show off their Certificate of Achievement (photo credit: Courtesy Amal Group)

The ‘white hat hackers’ of tomorrow

Students from 20 technical high schools compete to detect viruses, protect software, in systems they’ve never seen before

By David Shamah

February 28, 2013
12:59 am

Eugene Kaspersky (Photo credit: Courtesy Tel Aviv University)

New sophisticated malware targets 23 countries, including Israel

‘Dangerous’ MiniDuke, which exploits Adobe Reader PDF files, is latest virus to invade government computers, says Kaspersky Labs

By David Shamah

February 27, 2013
10:47 am

A Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone equipped with Red Bend's 'dual-persona' operating systems (photo credit: Courtesy)

‘Split personality’ phone solves major security breach

Red Bend’s new dual-persona Android OS platform for Samsung phones provides a better solution to the ‘BYOD dilemma’

By David Shamah

February 20, 2013
1:52 pm

Israel’s infrastructure exposed to cyber-risk

Though less talented than the Chinese, Iranian and Arab hackers may be able to get to electrical and water systems, expert warns

By David Shamah

February 11, 2013
3:21 am

Republican Rep. Mike Rogers of Michigan (photo credit: courtesy of US Congress)

Lawmaker: 95% of US companies vulnerable to cyberattacks

Republican Congressman points to Iran and China as the source of an increase in hacking attempts since the fall

February 4, 2013
3:06 pm

Cellrox CEO Omer Eiferman (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Israeli business beats Blackberry — by two years

Start-up Cellrox was selling virtual smartphone partitions for corporate data while Blackberry’s Balance feature was still in diapers

By David Shamah

January 29, 2013
11:33 pm

Gambling on a cruise ship (Photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Israeli online gamblers may be victims of cyber war

A virus affecting users of a Facebook poker app steals credit card data but could be symptom of something bigger, an expert says

By David Shamah

January 9, 2013
4:34 pm

Since September, attackers hit a series of American banking websites (photo credit: Shutterstock)

Iran behind spate of cyber-attacks against American banking sites, US says

Security breaches bear the hallmarks of a sophisticated, state-sponsored onslaught, security experts tell The New York Times

By Elie Leshem

January 4, 2013
1:07 pm

A hacker message to the people of Israel (Screenshot)

Hack attack: No borders for Arab computer vandals

Hackers targets dozens of Israeli websites every day. They also strike at sites in Iran, the Palestinian territories and across the region

By David Shamah

December 20, 2012
8:14 pm

Security expert Eugene Kaspersky (right) discusses the Flame virus on a recent visit to Israel (Photo credit: Courtesy)

New computer virus hitting Iran could be more potent than it looks

‘Batchwiper’ seems to be a simple Trojan, says Israeli expert, but so was the malware that apparently prefaced Stuxnet

By David Shamah

December 20, 2012
9:35 am

Keeping data safe on a billion and a half cellphones

Red Bend is the world’s most popular solution for safe over-the-air software updates for smart devices

By David Shamah

December 13, 2012
2:14 pm

Professor Yitzchak Ben-Yisrael (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

For better or worse, cybersecurity a growth industry for Israel

No one is happy about the greatly increased need for cyberdefense. But some Israeli start-ups may keep hacks at bay

By David Shamah

November 27, 2012
9:46 am

Education Minister Daniel Hershkowitz (center rear) with the winners of the Turing code contest (left to right) Itay Naor, Almog Veled, and Adar Zeitek (photo credit: Courtesy)

Cracking a codebreaker’s birthday code

Three Israeli kids — one of them just 9 — sifted through a half billion 0′s and 1′s, and came up with a birthday present that would have made master cryptanalyst Alan Turing proud

By David Shamah

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The Times of Israel

The one-stop news site
covering Israel, the region and
the Jewish people worldwide

Founding editor:
David Horovitz

Fair, fresh and fast

The Jewish world's
fastest-growing
news site

Topic: cybersecurity

‘Facebook, Twitter are the true leaders of the Arab Spring’

Due to social media, Syria, Egypt and Lebanon are no longer countries in the conventional sense, says top defense official

The Israeli hacker who saved Facebook — twice

Nir Goldshlager found a serious security breach in the social media network — and then found a hole in the ostensibly repaired code, too

The ‘white hat hackers’ of tomorrow

Students from 20 technical high schools compete to detect viruses, protect software, in systems they’ve never seen before

New sophisticated malware targets 23 countries, including Israel

‘Dangerous’ MiniDuke, which exploits Adobe Reader PDF files, is latest virus to invade government computers, says Kaspersky Labs

‘Split personality’ phone solves major security breach

Red Bend’s new dual-persona Android OS platform for Samsung phones provides a better solution to the ‘BYOD dilemma’

Israel’s infrastructure exposed to cyber-risk

Though less talented than the Chinese, Iranian and Arab hackers may be able to get to electrical and water systems, expert warns

Lawmaker: 95% of US companies vulnerable to cyberattacks

Republican Congressman points to Iran and China as the source of an increase in hacking attempts since the fall

Israeli business beats Blackberry — by two years

Start-up Cellrox was selling virtual smartphone partitions for corporate data while Blackberry’s Balance feature was still in diapers

Israeli online gamblers may be victims of cyber war

A virus affecting users of a Facebook poker app steals credit card data but could be symptom of something bigger, an expert says

Iran behind spate of cyber-attacks against American banking sites, US says

Security breaches bear the hallmarks of a sophisticated, state-sponsored onslaught, security experts tell The New York Times

Hack attack: No borders for Arab computer vandals

Hackers targets dozens of Israeli websites every day. They also strike at sites in Iran, the Palestinian territories and across the region

New computer virus hitting Iran could be more potent than it looks

‘Batchwiper’ seems to be a simple Trojan, says Israeli expert, but so was the malware that apparently prefaced Stuxnet

Keeping data safe on a billion and a half cellphones

Red Bend is the world’s most popular solution for safe over-the-air software updates for smart devices

For better or worse, cybersecurity a growth industry for Israel

No one is happy about the greatly increased need for cyberdefense. But some Israeli start-ups may keep hacks at bay

Cracking a codebreaker’s birthday code

Three Israeli kids — one of them just 9 — sifted through a half billion 0′s and 1′s, and came up with a birthday present that would have made master cryptanalyst Alan Turing proud

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