Elbit Provides RUAG Defence with Cyber Security Simulator
Elbit Systems' wholly-owned subsidiary, CYBERBIT, was awarded a contract to provide the Switzerland-based company, RUAG Defence, with CYBERBIT’s CyberShield - Cyber Security Trainer and...
Cyber Terrorists Are Gaining Ground
The field of cyber warfare has brought about a paradigm shift in the old balance of power. Sheer force of numbers and financial and...
Kazakhstan’s Internet Spying Likely To Flop
While Western powers are deeply engaged in debating the merits and dangers of encryption, Kazakhstan is leading the charge in bypassing the security mechanism...
Nearly Half Of Enterprises To Deploy IoT By End Of 2016
Nearly half of enterprises are set to deploy Internet of Things (IoT) by the end of 2016, according to findings from 451 Research, an...
Of Cyber And Regulation
Avi Yariv
At the Cyber and Regulation conference, which took place in the University of Haifa last week, special attention was given to the regulatory...
Protecting the Israeli Aviation Infrastructure
By ARIE EGOZI
A big effort is being made to protect the Israeli aviation infrastructure from Cyber attacks.
The threat is real and imminent. A cyber...
ISIS’ Newest Propaganda Weapon: An Android App
ISIS is known for its advanced application of propaganda techniques, far more so than their predecessors. Ghost Security Group, an online hacktivist collective whose...
Effective Defending of Municipal Infrastructure Against Cyber Attacks
Daniel Ehrenreich
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) experts are well aware that there is no single measure ("no silver bullet") that provides absolute cyber...
Are War Games The Way To Protect The Grid?
The 13 November attacks on Paris have demonstrated that Western countries are not secure against the terrorist threat. One possibility keeping many awake at...
The Browser Add-On to Protect Your Devices From Malware
In the old days of the home computing, malware - viruses, computer worms, and trojan horses - ranged from the relatively harmless prank to...
Iran Is Challenging IoT Security
As we have previously reported, the Internet of Things (IoT) may be on the brink of changing our lives - but before that happens...
China Accused Of Hacking Australia’s Bureau Of Meteorology
Chinese state-sponsored hacking of US computer networks has been a frequent feature in headlines in recent years. In this case, Chinese cyber attackers have...
Ransomware Could Target Medical Devices
Medical devices may not be ever-present in headlines, but that does not mean no new developments in the field happen. Rather, in recent years...
Britain’s Nuclear Arsenal Could Be Vulnerable To Cyber Attack
Labour’s former Defence Secretary Lord Browne warns of severe risk to Britain’s nuclear deterrent unless “weak spots” are protected. If such security holes as...
NATO’s Defensive Cyber War Games
Threats from terrorist organisations and belligerent states are numerous. They range from terrorist attacks, like we have seen in Paris, through offensive operations similar...
Ariel University to Establish Training Center For Cyber Protectors
Ariel University is currently establishing a training center for cyber protectors based on technology by Cyberbit, a subsidiary of Elbit Systems. The center will be...
Is Your Android Device Really Secure?
We have written before about China building its own secure smartphone ecosystem - including a homegrown operating system and even processing chips - all...
Credential Stealing Trojan Updated For Windows 10
Improved security was touted as one of the main advantages of Windows 10 over previous versions, as well as Microsoft’s newly launched Edge browser...
The Department of Homeland Security Severely Lacks In IT Security
You’d think that as an agency tasked with security, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would be for the challenge of maintaining its own...
India To Launch World’s Biggest Biometric Database
In an effort to combat identity theft and fraud in the country, India is launching a new biometric database - the world’s largest. With...
China To Build Spy-proof Smartphones
For years digital security experts have worried over possible backdoors implemented into equipment manufactured at Chinese factories. Over the years there have been several...
IoT Could Turn Our Cities Into Cyber Battlegrounds
The Internet of Things (IoT) is growing rapidly. The number of internet-connected devices is expected to hit 6.4 billion in 2016, and to surpass...
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