Topic: hacktivism

April 5, 2016
6:01 pm

OpIsrael screenshot

Security ‘situation room’ stands ready to prevent ‘cyber-holocaust’

In annual OpIsrael attack, hackers promise to ‘eliminate Isra-Hell’ from cyberspace; a Tel Aviv security firm aims to prevent that

By David Shamah

March 30, 2016
7:23 pm

Andrew Auernheimer was part of a group in 2010 that hacked AT&T’s servers, but his conviction was overturned on appeal. (Wikimedia Commons)

White supremacist claims swastika printing hack at US colleges

Andrew Auernheimer, self-described ‘white nationalist hacktivist,’ says he sent fliers to every publicly accessible printer in North America

By JTA

March 25, 2015
8:34 pm

OpIsrael screenshot

Anti-Israel hackers promise ‘electronic Holocaust’

Hacking group Op-Israel says it will ‘erase the Zionist entity from cyberspace’; targets include government and army websites

By David Shamah

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