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הצבעה קלפי קלפיות כנסת 21 בחירות 2019

Once Again, Two New Election App Breaches Exposed Personal Data on Millions of Israelis

16.02.20|Omer Kabir
Last week, Calcalist reported a severe security breach in the campaign management app of Israel’s ruling Likud party, which compromised the personal data of over 6 million voters
אבטחת מידע סייבר פריצה סיסמה

Dark Web Economy Meet-Up: the Players, Technologies, and Challenges

12.02.20|CTech
On February 19, Herzog Fox & Neeman and Herzog Strategic, in partnership with CTech, will be hosting industry leaders to share their insights and strategies for meeting the cyber challenges of the Dark Web
בנימין נתניהו 1.1.19

Following Likud App Breach, Regulator Descends on Offices of Suspected Developer

11.02.20|Omer Kabir
A day after Calcalist reported a security breach in a campaign management app used by Israeli ruling party Likud had exposed the country’s voting registrar, the Privacy Protection Authority ordered an inspection at the offices of “one of the companies suspected of being the source of the leak”
בנימין נתניהו ישיבת ממשלה 12.1.20

An Election App Breach Exposed the Personal Data of 6.5 Million Israelis

10.02.20|Omer Kabir
A breach in the campaign management app of Israel’s ruling Likud Party laid bare the country’s voting registrar’s database and exposed lacking regulation
הנסיך הארי ו מייגן מרקל התארסו

Jeff Bezos, Meghan Markle, and You Have This in Common: Privacy Concerns

31.01.20|Dov Greenbaum
Passwords are both easily cracked and forgotten but available alternatives, such as biometric facial recognition technologies, raise their own prominent concerns
אבטחת מידע סייבר פריצה סיסמה

Dark Web—a View From the Inside

26.12.19|Avraham Chaim Schneider
The dark web functions no different than a social network for criminals—with hierarchies, money flows, and user reputations being built and torn down, according to Avi Kasztan, SIXGILL co-founder and an expert in dark web monitoring and intelligence
דונלנד טראמפ נשיא ארה"ב ביקור בצי

Israeli Hackers Unveil Fake News Network Designed to Push Trump Merch

25.12.19|Omer Kabir
A network of dozens of websites continuously published fake news stories for years to target Trump supporters for ads pushing Trump hats, posters, and coins bearing Trump’s portrait
מנכ"ל אימפרבה היוצא כריס היילן ו שלמה קרמר

Imperva CEO Chris Hylen Resigns

27.10.19|Meir Orbach
Hylen stepped down on October 21, two months after the information security company disclosed a data breach
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Some of Israel’s Largest Companies Chose to Ignore Warnings of a Severe Cybersecurity Breach

11.09.19|Omer Kabir
In August, the Israel National Cyber Directorate published an urgent warning regarding a security flaw in some of the VPN servers exposing thousands of organizations in Israel to a potential hacker attack
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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
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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
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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