Iran’s Attack and Prospects for Regional War Mideast Peace Iran’s Attack and Prospects for Regional War Richard Silverstein April 15, 2024 The important story regarding yesterday’s Iranian attack on Israel is not the strike itself, or even Israel’s... Read More Read more about Iran’s Attack and Prospects for Regional War
Haaretz Promo for IDF Cyber-War Unit 8200 Mideast Peace Haaretz Promo for IDF Cyber-War Unit 8200 Richard Silverstein April 21, 2014 I’ve chronicled over the past few months a serious promotional campaign on behalf of the IDF’s cyber-war... Read More Read more about Haaretz Promo for IDF Cyber-War Unit 8200
IDF to Double Unit 8200 Cyber-War Manpower Mideast Peace IDF to Double Unit 8200 Cyber-War Manpower Richard Silverstein October 23, 2012 The Israel’s Channel 2 reports (Hebrew) that the IDF intends to double the manpower of its Unit... Read More Read more about IDF to Double Unit 8200 Cyber-War Manpower
Israel’s New Cyber-Virus Attacks Computers from Iran to Lebanon Mideast Peace Israel’s New Cyber-Virus Attacks Computers from Iran to Lebanon Richard Silverstein October 16, 2012 Kaspersky Labs announced today that it had discovered a new cyber-virus it’s calling mini-Flame, used to hack... Read More Read more about Israel’s New Cyber-Virus Attacks Computers from Iran to Lebanon
Cyberwar and the Threat to Civilization Mideast Peace Cyberwar and the Threat to Civilization Richard Silverstein September 15, 2012 The American Interest published an essay, Hacking the Next War, which explores the juxtaposition between the traditional... Read More Read more about Cyberwar and the Threat to Civilization
Israeli Cyber-War Against Iran Mideast Peace Israeli Cyber-War Against Iran Richard Silverstein August 21, 2012 The leaked Israeli government document I published last week is a sales pitch outlining Israel’s putative attack... Read More Read more about Israeli Cyber-War Against Iran
Mahdi Virus Attacks Computers Throughout Middle East Mideast Peace Mahdi Virus Attacks Computers Throughout Middle East Richard Silverstein July 17, 2012 This just in: many of you have heard of the Shiite messiah known as the Mahdi. Well... Read More Read more about Mahdi Virus Attacks Computers Throughout Middle East
Flame Was Joint Israeli-U.S. Cyberwar Project Mideast Peace Military-Tech-Security Politics & Society Flame Was Joint Israeli-U.S. Cyberwar Project Richard Silverstein June 19, 2012 The Washington Post is enjoying another one of those sneaky-leaky moments thanks to willing sources in the... Read More Read more about Flame Was Joint Israeli-U.S. Cyberwar Project
Flame and Stuxnet Cyberweapons Created by Collaborating Hacker Teams Mideast Peace Military-Tech-Security Flame and Stuxnet Cyberweapons Created by Collaborating Hacker Teams Richard Silverstein June 12, 2012 I reported here about the Flame computer cyberweapon developed by Israel, which has infected individual computers in... Read More Read more about Flame and Stuxnet Cyberweapons Created by Collaborating Hacker Teams
Flame: Israel’s New Contribution to Middle East Cyberwar Mideast Peace Flame: Israel’s New Contribution to Middle East Cyberwar Richard Silverstein May 28, 2012 The country that brought us Iranian nuclear assassinations, explosions at Iran missile bases, and Stuxnet, is at... Read More Read more about Flame: Israel’s New Contribution to Middle East Cyberwar
Ayalon: Cyberattacks on Israel Are ‘Act of War’ Mideast Peace Ayalon: Cyberattacks on Israel Are ‘Act of War’ Richard Silverstein January 7, 2012 Leave it to Danny Ayalon to plumb unintentionally the twisted hypocrisy of Israeli foreign and military policy.... Read More Read more about Ayalon: Cyberattacks on Israel Are ‘Act of War’
Cyberwarfare: What Goes Around Comes Around Mideast Peace Cyberwarfare: What Goes Around Comes Around Richard Silverstein November 6, 2011 Israel, the land of Stuxnet and Duqu and home of a sophisticated cyberwarfare capability pursued both by... Read More Read more about Cyberwarfare: What Goes Around Comes Around