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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

November 22, 2012
3:24 pm

The eye in the sky, invented by the Israel Police

700 people work for the department’s Technology Administration, and they have developed some innovative tech — which is shared, for free, with departments around the world

By David Shamah

November 19, 2012
2:55 am

FInance Minister Yuval Steintz and Chief Information Officer Carmela Avner at the Government Computing Center in Jerusalem (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Steinitz: Israel beat back 43,999,999 and a half cyber attacks

Despite declarations by hacker group Anonymous that it would disable the government’s IT infrastructure, websites have been largely immune

By David Shamah

November 14, 2012
11:35 am

Symantec NetBackup 5220 security appliance (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Breaking the ‘hacker attack chain’

At a recent seminar in Israel, security experts from Symantec laid out what Israel – and the world – faces in the coming cyberwar

By David Shamah

October 24, 2012
10:25 am

Computer motherboard (photo credit: Shay Levy/ Flash 90)

Report: Spam choking Israeli, world Internet

If you think you’re getting more junk email than ever before, you’re right; 75% of all messages belong in the trash, security company Symantec says

By David Shamah

October 18, 2012
11:34 pm

The Eshkol Water Filtration Plant in Northern Israel, the fourth largest plant in the world and the first of its kind in the country. The plant filters water pumped from the Kinneret. (Photo credit: Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Keeping cyberterrorists out of our ‘digital Pearl Harbors’

Israel’s RADiFlow, a part of the RAD group, is developing equipment and software to keep utilities and infrastructure safe

By David Shamah

October 16, 2012
9:10 am

Illustrative photo of a burning CPU (photo credit: CC BY Am-Mo/Flikr)

Newly revealed miniFlame virus targets Iranian and Lebanese computers

Security experts say bug has infected only a few dozen high-profile users

By Gabe Fisher

October 16, 2012
3:39 am

An IDF soldier greets a reconnaissance drone on its return from a mission. (photo credit: Tsahi Ben-Ami/Flash90)

What to do when an enemy drone comes calling

UAVs may be an easy way for a country to collect information, but they are also an easy way for targets to mislead their enemies

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

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

The eye in the sky, invented by the Israel Police

700 people work for the department’s Technology Administration, and they have developed some innovative tech — which is shared, for free, with departments around the world

Steinitz: Israel beat back 43,999,999 and a half cyber attacks

Despite declarations by hacker group Anonymous that it would disable the government’s IT infrastructure, websites have been largely immune

Breaking the ‘hacker attack chain’

At a recent seminar in Israel, security experts from Symantec laid out what Israel – and the world – faces in the coming cyberwar

Report: Spam choking Israeli, world Internet

If you think you’re getting more junk email than ever before, you’re right; 75% of all messages belong in the trash, security company Symantec says

Keeping cyberterrorists out of our ‘digital Pearl Harbors’

Israel’s RADiFlow, a part of the RAD group, is developing equipment and software to keep utilities and infrastructure safe

Newly revealed miniFlame virus targets Iranian and Lebanese computers

Security experts say bug has infected only a few dozen high-profile users

What to do when an enemy drone comes calling

UAVs may be an easy way for a country to collect information, but they are also an easy way for targets to mislead their enemies

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