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Security Breach Revealed Personal Information of Israeli Toll Highway Users

01.08.19|Omer Kabir
Files containing 2.9 million messages sent between May 2018 and January 2019 to 824,000 phone numbers by the operator of Israel’s Highway 6 were stored on an unsecured server and recently uncovered by activist hackers
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3.5% of Israelis Were Hacked in 2018, Report Says

30.06.19|Shahar Ilan and Adi Pick
89% of victims did not report the attacks to the police, according to a new survey by the country’s Central Bureau of Statistics
ראש הממשלה בנימין נתניהו ו שרה נתניהו עולים לטיסה

Security Breach Exposes Travel Plans of Israeli Prime Minister, Senior Security Agents

22.05.19|Omer Kabir
Information about the international travel plans of the Israeli prime minister, high-ranking Israeli diplomats, and senior agents of Israel’s security agencies was leaked, according to a hacker who claims to have unveiled the breach
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Israeli Authorities Challenge Claims of Voting System Breach

07.04.19|Omer Kabir
On Saturday, days before the Israeli general election, an anonymous Twitter user claimed that the details of 6 million Israelis have been compromised following a voting system hack
יוסי אפלבאום מנכ"ל חברת אבטחת המידע האמריקאית Sepio Systems

Hardware Hacking Is a Global Problem, Says Cyber Executive

14.10.18|Omer Kabir
Earlier this month, Bloomberg ran a series of stories reporting that China installed spy chips on motherboards manufactured by U.S.-headquartered Supermicro, a company whose motherboards are used by tech companies like Apple and Amazon in their servers
עופר וילנסקי מנכ"ל הולה

A Hacker Hijacked Hola’s VPN Chrome Extension, Targeting Cryptocoin Owners

11.07.18|Lilach Baumer
The phishing version uploaded to the Chrome Web Store targeted users of popular crypto wallet service MyEtherWallet
את'ריום מטבעות וירטואליים קריפטו בלוקצ'יין

Israeli Crypto Startup Bancor Loses $13.5 Million to Hacking

10.07.18|Amarelle Wenkert
Bancor reported the incident in a tweet on Monday. A digital coin valued at $23.5 million was stolen, with Bancor eventually retrieving $10 million worth of its own coin, BNT
מוסף 50 הסטארטאפים המבטיחים מנכ"ל ומייסד MyHeritage גלעד יפת

Emails of Over 92 Million Users Stolen from Genealogy Company MyHeritage

06.06.18|Lilach Baumer
MyHeritage enables users to create family trees by searching through historical documents such as census, immigration, marriage and burial records in 42 languages
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Recent Attacks Enabled by Lax Corporate Cybersecurity, Report Says

02.04.18|Asaf Shalev
Last month saw denial-of-service attacks on an unprecedented scale. Israeli cybersecurity consulting firm Komodo says it has traced a fifth of the servers abused in the attack to Fortune 500 companies
ירון לוק זילברמן

Company Behind AMD Vulnerabilities Report Denies Ties to Short Selling Outfit

22.03.18|Raphael Kahan
Israel-based CTS Labs reported 13 security flaws in AMD processors last week after only giving the chipmaker 24 hours warning
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Mobile Cyber Startup Zimperium Builds Executive Team with New Hire

28.02.18|Tofi Stoler
Zimperium appoints Swiss angel investor and former CA Technologies executive Eric Grotefeld as chief revenue officer
אלגוריתם מחשב זירת הנדלן

Researchers Steal Data from Offline Computer in a Faraday Cage

08.02.18|Asaf Shalev
A new technique that beats information security measures like air gaps and metal-lined Faraday cages was demonstrated by Israeli cyber researchers who named their project Odini after the escape artist Harry Houdini
ליאור דיב מנכ"ל סייבריזון CYBEREASON

Whatever Wall We Design, Hackers Will Find a Way to Penetrate It, Says Cybereason CEO

28.01.18|Yoav Stoler and Hagar Ravet
Israeli cybersecurity company Cybereason specializes in endpoint detection and response software. In June 2017, the company raised $100 million from Softbank Corporation
רשת סייבר תקיפה אבטחה

Building on TopSpin Acquisition, Fidelis Cybersecurity Launches Intelligent Deception Module

28.01.18|Amarelle Wenkert
The new Module is being introduced less than four months after the acquisition of Israeli cyber deception company TopSpin
אתיופיה אורומו הפגנות Ethiopia Oromo Protests

CTech’s Daily Israeli Tech News Roundup

06.12.17|CTech
Ethiopia used Israeli spyware to track dissidents. OECD should move to close big tech’s tax loopholes, says Sweden’s Minister for EU Affairs
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Zionist Organization Negligent, Repeatedly Ransomed by Hackers, Report Says

31.10.17|Shahar Ilan and Lilach Baumer
Computers at the Jewish National Fund were not protected with an anti-virus, and the organization has fallen prey to five online ransom attacks in 2015
ד"ר יוסי קשת אוניברסיטת בר אילן ועידת מובייל ו דיגיטל

Tricking Algorithms—Fraudsters’ Next Frontier

30.10.17|Keren-Or Grinberg and Orr Hirschauge
Computer scientists systematically tricked speaker verification systems into making false identifications
יוג'ין קספרסקי אבטחת מידע

Israel Exposed Russian Hack into U.S. Intelligence, the New York Times Reports

15.10.17|Raphael Kahan
In a July interview with Calcalist Kaspersky Labs founder, Eugene Kaspersky said the company was hacked by people with “offices North of Tel-Aviv”
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How Macron's Team May Have Changed Cybersecurity Forever

09.07.17|Gadi Evron
The camaigning organizations of the French President may have ushered in a new era in cyber-security, one in which the economics are tilted in the defender's favor