Topic: hacktivism

May 4, 2014
7:15 pm

Tel Aviv University's website, seen here attacked by anti-Israeli hackers, February 2012 (Photo credit: Courtesy TAU)

Hacktivists can’t win with Israeli security system

It’s not worth defacing sites that use Foresight’s Defacement Mitigator; no one will know the hack took place

By David Shamah

April 7, 2014
7:34 pm

Kaspersky Lab's Worldwide Interactive Cyberthreat Map (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Study: Israel five times more likely to be hacked

Hacktivists — hackers who hit servers for ideological reasons — are responsible for a large majority of attacks in Israel

By David Shamah

February 12, 2014
7:27 pm

Screenshot of an online sales site where hackers can buy Xtreme RAT (Photo credit: Courtesy Seculert)

Xtreme RAT bites Israeli government sites, yet again

Palestinian hacktivists strike Israel once more with a particular brand of malware that has a worrisome knack for success

By David Shamah

July 25, 2013
6:42 am

Comsec CEO Moshe Ishai (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Learning the art and practice of cyber-defense

The Comsimulator does its worst against network protection systems in order to help them do their best

By David Shamah

June 3, 2013
2:41 pm

Map of countries affected by the Red October malware. (Screenshot Courtesy Kaspersky Lab)

Top security exec: Beware the ‘sons of Stuxnet’

The virus that compromised Iran’s nuclear infrastructure is a model of things to come, and Israel is not immune

By David Shamah

November 20, 2012
11:32 pm

A message from Hamas (Photo credit: Guy Mizrahi)

Hamas launches email assault

Using stolen address databases or ready-made scripts, ‘hacktivists’ have been trying to intimidate Israelis through their inboxes

By David Shamah