New Excellence Center to Advance Research on CyberSecurity
The University of Connecticut’s (UConn) School of Engineering and Synchrony Financial, a consumer financial services company headquartered in the state, have announced earlier this...
Poland Plans Huge Defence Budgets – Will Israel Benefit? Not Sure
The Polish Ministry of Defence is planning to spend more than 61 billion zloty (US $14.5 billion) to acquire new weapons and military equipment...
Cybersecurity Services to Air Force Satellite Imagery Project
An IT technology company will provide cybersecurity services to the US Air Force’s Eagle Vision, the only worldwide deployable ground station in the Department...
Quantum cryptography in the HLS world
Since the dawn of the Internet, security has been a big issue. Having machines communicate and transmit information over a public, worldwide network makes...
Software Vulnerabilities, Lack of Security Updates: A Major Cyber Threat
Vulnerabilities in software regularly used by employees at work are the leading cause of internal cyber-security incidents in business. This was one of the...
End of Windows XP Support to Cause Wave of Cyber Attacks
Microsoft will stop supporting the Windows XP operating system in mid 2014. Java 6 applications will also stop receiving updates. This situation, according to...
U.S DHS Awards New Security Contracts
The Homeland Security Department awarded a pair of multi-million dollar contracts aimed at security, one in biometric identification and one in network security.
After months...
iHLS TV – Ebola, domestic extremism, Shellshock bug, new octocopter and...
In this weekly report (7 October 2014):
Ebola as seen from space
Domestic extremism Summit at the Whitehouse,
Hackers unleash Shellshock bug
New octocopter UAS
Darpa looking into the...
Heartbeat Based Biometric Identification
Canadian company Nymi has managed to develop a unique, first of its kind, technological solution: Paying with a wrist-bracelet that can detect the heartbeat...
A Comprehensive Cyber Attack On ISIS – Pros and Cons
The Pentagon is set to step up its cyber warfare efforts against ISIS, and is arguing that disabling the group’s computers, mobile phones, and...
China Boosts Surveillance State Using (Not) Big Data
In a not surprising turn of events, China is employing ever more sophisticated technologies in its surveillance apparatus to allow authorities to profile and...
Terrorists Using Virtual Currencies – a Growing Threat
Virtual currencies have the potential for widespread use by terrorists, but so far the limited scale of their real world adoption means it remains...
Last Preparations For AUS&R 2015
Coordination between the presenters of the air show, and the ground and maritime demonstrations, as well as the interfaces of the mobile broadcasting stations,...
10 Billion Euros: Belgium’s Cyber Budget
Belgian Prime Minister Di Rupo allocated 10 billion euro for improving and upgrading cyber security in Belgium, an amount the government was obligated to...
ICT Report on Cyber Terrorism – February 2013
This report covers two main subjets: cyber-terrorism (offensive, defensive, and the media, and the main topics of jihadist discourse); cyber-crime, whenever and wherever it...
#OpIsrael2016: ISIS-Supporting Hackers To Attack Israel
MadSec’s Cyber Intelligence team, which is investigating the cyber operation OpIsrael 2016 against Israel scheduled for April 7th, 2016, reports that the group of...
Kasparsky Labs explain the “Red October” threat
On January 14, 2013, Kaspersky Lab announced the discovery of “Red October”, a high-level cyber-espionage campaign that has been active for over five years. ...
INSS Global Cyber Review: May 2013
Global Cyber
Review
USA
U.S. directly accuses China of cyber-attacks
The Obama administration explicitly accused China’s military of mounting attacks on American government computer systems and defense contractors, saying...
Executive Cyber Intelligence Bi-Weekly Report by INSS-CSFI
April 1st, 2014
Israel
Israel: Cyber Attacks vs Cyber Defense
In the 10 years since Ahmed Yassin death, Hamas has sent various threatening text massages to Israeli...
JPMorgan cyberattacked
The FBI is investigating an alleged break-in to J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.'s computers. It appears as though the bank was the target of...
Chinese hackers strike hard
Chinese hackers have gained access to the designs of many of the nation’s most sensitive advanced weapons systems, according to a report prepared for...
Executive Cyber Intelligence Bi-Weekly Report by INSS-CSFI
June15th, 2014
ISRAEL
Israel as a cyber-security superpower
Brig. Gen. Eitan Eshal, Head of Research and Development at Mapat in the Defense Ministry, warned against the dangers...












































