Israel’s Version of Moving Fast and Breaking Things: The New Cybersecurity Bill
Cybersecurity visualization. (Source: CyberVisuals.org, Hewlett Foundation Cyber Initiative)
The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) of Israel published a new bill in February entitled “Cybersecurity and the National Cyber Directorate.” If passed by government committee and the Knesset, this law will redefine cybersecurity governance in Israel. The PMO officially tabled an earlier version of the bill in June 2018, but that bill did not advance through the legislative process given the strong objections it raised both in the professional cybersecurity community and among other government authorities. In particular, stakeholders raised concerns about the broad scope of authority sought by the Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD) under the 2018 bill. Other concerns included the lack of proper safeguards over the nature and scope of invasive “computer protection actions” taken by the INCD in resp
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May. 6, 2021 2:22 PM
Israel is bracing for a wave of Iranian-inspired cyberattacks that will try to disrupt the Israeli internet and deface local websites on Jerusalem Day, Israel’s cyber authority said Wednesday.
Al-Quds Day (Al-Quds is Arabic for Jerusalem) was declared by the leader of Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. It’s held on the last Friday of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
This year, the day – which usually sees anti-Israel protests in Tehran and parts of the Arab world – falls on May 22. Israel also marks its own Jerusalem Day, commemorating the unification of the city during the 1967 Six-Day War. This year it falls on May 10.
A hooded man holds a laptop computer as cyber code is projected on him in this illustration picture taken on May 13, 2017. Photo: Reuters / Kacper Pempel / Illustration.
CTech – Around 5,000 email addresses with the suffix of gov.il belonging to Israeli state employees, as well as their passwords, have been discovered as part of an analysis of a massive 100GB leak uploaded to a hackers forum. The stockpile, known as COMB21 (standing for Compilation of Many Breaches and the year of its discovery) includes 3.2 billion passwords and 2.18 billion addresses.
The leak was analyzed by Brazilian network security company Syhunt and according to its report, the stockpile of emails and passwords is “being actively shared among hackers and cybercriminals in the form of a single, 7zip compressed archive.”
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Apr. 29, 2021 2:07 PM
Israel is bracing for a wave of Iranian-inspired cyberattacks that will try to disrupt the Israeli internet and deface local websites on Jerusalem Day, Israel’s cyber authority said Wednesday.
Al-Quds Day (Al-Quds is Arabic for Jerusalem) was declared by the leader of Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. It’s held on the last Friday of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
This year, the day – which usually sees anti-Israel protests in Tehran and parts of the Arab world – falls on May 22. Israel also marks its own Jerusalem Day, commemorating the unification of the city during the 1967 Six-Day War. This year it falls on May 10.