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Cyber proxy wars escalate as hackers shift to infrastructure targets
Future hacktivist attacks may target critical infrastructure, such as power grids, water treatment facilities, and manufacturing sites, according to indications highlighted in the report.
Portugal warns foreign state-backed hackers targeting officials' and military messaging accounts
FBI 'identified and addressed' suspicious cyber activity on its networks, agency spokesperson says
Handala hackers claim to have hacked former MK Ayelet Shaked's phone, share pictures, videos online
Hacked Soros e-mails reveal plans to fight Israel's 'racist' policies
The documents are available on a website, reportedly backed by Russia, that uses anti-Semitic stereotypes to attack Soros.
Hacker of models, famous women’s intimate photos from phones, accounts indicted
There is a gag order on the hacked material and on the identities of those persons whose accounts were hacked, including the famous models, TV actors and TV news personalities.
Hackers and companies alike finding clever new ways to circumvent privacy
Hackers and companies alike are increasingly able to discern identifying information about people, such as their gender, based on indirect data.
Anonymous brings 'gay-pride' to IS Twitter accounts
The focus to gay propaganda only shifted a week ago, following the deadly shooting in Orlando.
Country’s young computer innovators create apps at HackTrack TLV
For HackTrack TLV, the youth split up into teams of up to four participants to formulate and develop their ideas, vying for a first place prize of NIS 5,000 and office space for at Merkspace.
Experts: Annual 'Anonymous' cyber-attack effort largely unsophisticated, unsuccessful.
In the past, it has claimed some success in tampering with websites belonging to Yad Vashem, the Prime Minister’s Office, the Israel Defense Forces, the Knesset and the court system.
Israeli businesses, government brace for annual Anonymous cyber-attacks
Past attempts have targeted the sites of Yad Vashem, the Prime Minister’s Office, and the Israel Defense Forces website, with limited success.
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'US to charge Iranian hackers in cyber attacks against American targets'
Sources say Justice Department has prepared indictment against Iranians for campaign of cyber attacks in 2012 and 2013 on banks, New York dam.
Tech Talk: Beware of ransomware
Ransomware are viruses that are sent to people, mostly through email, that infect people’s computers and request them to pay a fee to have the restriction removed or to receive an encryption key.
Report: Iran hacked former IDF chief's computer
According to Ch. 10 report, cyber hackers working for Iran have over the past year penetrated dozens of computers belonging to Israelis, markedly senior security officials.