Cyberwar and the Threat to Civilization
Cyber war’s anonymity: no button, no finger prints, no author The American Interest published an essay, Hacking the Next War, which explores the juxtaposition between the traditional internet and the...
View ArticleIsrael’s New Cyber-Virus Attacks Computers from Iran to Lebanon
Kaspersky Labs announced today that it had discovered a new cyber-virus it’s calling mini-Flame, used to hack computer systems in the Middle East. The code, a variant of the Flame and Stuxnet computer...
View ArticleIDF to Double Unit 8200 Cyber-War Manpower
The Israel’s Channel 2 reports (Hebrew) that the IDF intends to double the manpower of its Unit 8200, which is charged with waging cyber-war on Israel’s enemies. It plays a role akin to the NSA here...
View ArticleHaaretz Promo for IDF Cyber-War Unit 8200
I’ve chronicled over the past few months a serious promotional campaign on behalf of the IDF’s cyber-war Unit 8200. It includes a slew of flattering profiles of Israel’s top computer warriors which...
View ArticleFlame and Stuxnet Cyberweapons Created by Collaborating Hacker Teams
I reported here about the Flame computer cyberweapon developed by Israel, which has infected individual computers in Iran and other Middle Eastern nations, including Israel and Palestine. A number of...
View ArticleFlame Was Joint Israeli-U.S. Cyberwar Project
The Washington Post is enjoying another one of those sneaky-leaky moments thanks to willing sources in the Obama administration who both sought to reinforce U.S. involvement with anti-Iran...
View ArticleMahdi Virus Attacks Computers Throughout Middle East
This just in: many of you have heard of the Shiite messiah known as the Mahdi. Well it appears He reads Eli Lake. Who’d a thunk it? Let me explain: an Israeli cybersecurity company, Seculert,...
View ArticleIsraeli Cyber-War Against Iran
The leaked Israeli government document I published last week is a sales pitch outlining Israel’s putative attack on Iran. It would begin with a massive cyber-attack: “The Israeli attack will open with...
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