Fearing cyber-attack, police disconnect from Internet

Fearing cyber-attack, police disconnect … JPost – National News.

10/25/2012 12:34

Police order officers to be extra careful with computers, external software following fears of an attack; unclear if breach was wide-scale attack or isolated virus that infected a number of computers.

Cyber defense war room (illustrative) Photo: Illustrative photo: Reuters and Marc Israel Sellem

The Israel Police fear a possible virus attack on their national computer system, and have ordered officers to be extra careful using any police computers or software. Officers were ordered to disconnect computers from civilian networks.

In addition, all police district spokesperson’s offices have gone offline and are not sending or responding to emails at the moment. Internal police networks were still online.

National Police Spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said police investigators are looking at the possibility that someone broke into the national computer system and are trying to determine how far the break-in reaches and if it entails some sort of widescale cyber-attack or a virus that was passed onto only a few computers.

Police were ordered not to use external hard drives or disks-on-key.

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