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| April 7, 2013
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Israeli cyber-geniuses hacked anti-Israel hackers

Israeli hackers neutralizes website coordinating cyber attack on Israeli websites.

Anonymous successfully attacked the Education Ministry site.

By YAAKOV LAPPIN, JPOST.COM STAFF
 

 

Israeli hackers responding to a campaign to launch cyber-attacks on the country’s websites and Facebook accounts by breaking into the server hosting a major anti-Israeli hacking nerve center.

Photo: Screenshot from- http://www.opisrael.com/

The website, OpIsrael.com, which was run by the Anonghost hacking group to help coordinate an online attack on Israel, was taken over by an Israeli hacker calling himself EhIsR. Under the heading “A few forgotten facts,” the hacker posted content such as “Israel became a nation in 1312 BCE, 2,000 years before the rise of Islam.”

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| April 5, 2013
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The cyber-war starts Sunday

 

Hackers from all over the world are making final preparations for a cyber-attack against Israel — purported to be the most extensive attack to date.

They will try to infiltrate gov’t sites, hack into banks & infect users…. but, Israel is also preparing itself.

By Ilan Gattegno

 

For over a month now, Israel has been under cyberattack. It began with words and threats, which carry a hefty significance in and of themselves, due to their psychological impact, and because they prompt Internet activity from all levels to try to prevent the damage from such an anticipated attack.

Israel is preparing to defend itself from an imminent cyberattack.-

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| April 2, 2013
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Israel threatened with ‘potentially crippling’ cyberattack

Israeli Cybersecurity experts say financial system & gov’t websites are likely to be targeted by Anonymous. They say #OpIsrael is meant to “erase Israel from the Internet” in solidarity with the Palestinians & will peak on April 7.

Ilan Gattegno and Israel Hayom Staff

 

 

Israel is bracing for a “potentially crippling” cyberattack against the country’s major companies and websites, Israel Hayom learned Tuesday. The attack is set to take place on April 7, which this year will be the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day.

The planned assault is part of hacktivist group Anonymous’s ongoing #OpIsrael campaign, which was launched in March in a show of solidarity with the Palestinians.

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| March 27, 2013
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Saudi Arabia May Ban WhatsApp, Skype & Viber

Saudi Arabia may ban WhatsApp Viber and Skype, if the software firms don’t give the gov’t with a way to monitor user communications.

By Chana Ya’ar

Saudi Arabia may ban Skype, WhatsApp and Viber if the software firms don’t provide the government with a way to monitor user communications.

Skype

Skype on Computer – Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

The kingdom’s Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) is threatening to block audio-visual communication programs and applications because they use encrypted connections, according to an Arabic daily newspaper quoted by Gulf in the Media.

Two sources employed at local telecommunications firms allegedly told the daily that heads of telecom companies and the CITC have been debating the issue over the past three weeks. Continue Reading »

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| February 26, 2013
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IDF sends ‘induction orders’ via new online system

IDF aims to streamline induction process with its new online system that will issue reservists’ orders by email.

By Yossi Yehushua

 

No longer will marching orders be sent to IDF reservists by the iconic brown envelopes: The military announced the launch of a new online system tailored specifically to the Reserves needs.

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IDF – Photo: Hadar Cohen

Reserves soldiers will now receive their deployment orders by email, and will be given an access code to a special secure website, which will include all the information relevant to their posts, in addition to many other features.

The technological improvement was promoted by the IDF Personnel Directorate and the Teleprocessing Branch, following many complaints by reservists about the inefficient process. Continue Reading »

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| December 29, 2012
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Arabs from the Gulf states find solace confiding to Israeli ‘shrinks’

Why would an Arab woman in Lebanon, Qatar, or even Syria use the Internet to find an Israeli psychologist because her husband is running around with a ‘girlfriend’?

A quick Google search is enough to reveal that Dr. Rafael Richman is a psychologist based in the German Colony of Jerusalem. But many of his online patients would rather not know that.

Dr. Rafael Richman speaking online with a patient from his home in Jerusalem earlier this month.

Dr. Rafael Richman speaking online with a patient from his home in Jerusalem earlier this month. – Photo by Michal Fattal

Take, for example, the women from neighboring Arab countries who wait until the coast is clear to contact him over cyberspace and vent their frustrations about their husbands. Continue Reading »

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| June 25, 2012
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New law will make anonymous internet comments impossible

Ministerial Legislative Committee approves proposal to obligate Internet service providers to reveal PC addresses of people who post talkbacks • If Knesset approves, law will enable people, organizations to sue talkback authors.

By Edna Adato

 

 

In a controversial move that may limit the way people in Israel access online information, the Knesset Ministerial Committee for Legislation approved a proposal on Sunday that may force Internet service providers to disclose computer identities of people who write talkback messages on Web pages.

ISPs may soon be forced to reveal the identities of people who participate in talkbacks on Israeli Web pages. | Photo credit: AP

ISPs may soon be forced to reveal the identities of people who participate in talkbacks on Israeli Web pages.

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| April 20, 2012
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Israelis taking over online advertising

In recent years, digital advertising in Israel has quietly grown to $500M a year industry

The growing prevalence of the Internet in all areas of life is changing the map of advertising as well, with advertisers and agencies allocating more and more funds to digital advertising.

Archives Photo: Gilad Kavalerchik

Archives Photo: Gilad Kavalerchik

This trend has seen Israel quietly turning into a hub for digital advertising optimization. Between 2007 and 2011 the industry doubled its revenues, according to Yankee Group, a research and advisory firm. Although TV advertising still draws larger budges than its digital counterpart, the gap is expected to narrow in the next few years, according to digital marketing consulting firm eMarketer. Continue Reading »

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| March 20, 2012
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Knesset Approves Internet in Public Shelters

The Knesset approved on Monday the preliminary reading of a bill that requires public shelters to include infrastructure for internet access.

 

According to the bill, which was submitted by Orly Levy-Abekasis (Yisrael Beiteinu), a public shelter located in a community defined by an order of the Minister of Defense as being located in an area of confrontation will be set up with a wireless internet communication.

The explanatory notes to the bill said that “the Second Lebanon War in the north and Operation Cast Lead in the south have created a reality which is difficult and complex for hundreds of thousands of residents for whom normal life stopped and a routine of war became a fact of life. Continue Reading »

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| March 2, 2012
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Suicide Attempts Cause Facebook Controversy

Activists call to allow teachers greater Facebook freedom as two students attempt suicide over comments on site.

 

 

Two young students attempted suicide this week over bullying, some of which took place on the social networking site Facebook. Now some activists say the tragic case may have been preventable, and are calling on the Education Ministry to change its rules regarding Facebook use.

Rabbi Shai Piron of the Hakol Chinuch movement called Thursday for the Education Ministry to allow teachers to “friend” their students on Facebook. Currently, teachers are forbidden to have any contact with students on social networking sites. Continue Reading »

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