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 examine the Unit's mission from various angles as to the benefits they offer to Israeli society. Matthew Kalman wrote this shameless puff piece for The Guardian … [Read more...]
IDF 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 in the U.S. and was responsible for creating Stuxnet, Flame and the other cyber-viruses which have decimated Iran's nuclear and oil facilities. This is … [Read more...]
Israel’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 worms, which have previously been attributed to joint Israeli and U.S. development, penetrated computers in Lebanon, Sudan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and … [Read more...]
Cyberwar and the Threat to Civilization
The American Interest published an essay, Hacking the Next War, which explores the juxtaposition between the traditional internet and the myriad benefits it's offered to modern society, with the unplumbed destructive capacity of cyberwarfare. The founding principles of the internet were openness and trust. Issues like security and anticipation of abuse … [Read more...]