Views: 2,355 In December last year, Microsoft released the patch for the vulnerability used by Duqu to propogate itself across Windows desktops. The other nasty worm going around was Stuxnet – both cyberwarfare tools, and most recently a piece of malware claimed to be more sophisticated than both has been found infecting computers in the […]
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McAfee buying Tel Aviv startup Onigma for $15-25 million cash
Views: 4,204 [ad] Data security giant McAfee has bought a young Tel Aviv startup, Onigma, for somewhere between $15 million to $25 million cash, surmise hi-tech circles. McAfee will be integrating the Onigma technology in its enterprise security solution, and will be recruiting dozens more Israeli developers for the startup, which will become a local […]
Cyberwar Efforts Step-Up – NASA Sites Hacked
Views: 5,166 [ad] Ah cyberwar, cyber terrorism, efforts are ramping up, more sites are going down. The war in Lebanon is now showing its consequences in the digital world and a huge number of websites has been attacked and defaced as a protest against the invasion of Lebanon by Israel. Today two NASA websites were […]
Israeli Hackers Join the War Against Palestinian Sites
Views: 12,261 Israeli hackers have decided to ‘help’ and join the war against Palestine. The hackers group that calls itself “IDF” (which also means Israeli Defence Force) has hacked dozens of sites, erased the site content and replaced it the index with a picture of the Lebanon destruction that is made by Israeli Defence Force […]
US Investigates Snort Sale as a Security Risk
Views: 5,170 [ad] Basically the Americans are saying a lot of their sensitive govermental organisations are using Snort and they don’t want the software to be controlled by an Israeli company, they see it as a threat. The same Bush administration review panel that approved a ports deal involving the United Arab Emirates has notified […]