PM: Israel needs ‘digital iron dome’ to stop cyber attacks
PM: Israel needs ‘digital iron dome’ to stop cyber attacks | JPost | Israel News.
There has been a marked increase of cyber attacks on Israel from Iran over the last few months, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Sunday at the annual international cyber security conference at Tel Aviv University.
Netanyahu said those attacks were being carried out both directly by Iran, and also through its proxies: Hezbollah and Hamas. He said that not only did the attacks target Israel’s strategic infrastructure, but also key economic and civilian targets as well.
Netanyahu called for a “digital iron dome” to be set up to deflect the cyber attacks which he said would increase not only in quantity, but also in quality. Netanyahu said this issue was discussed at length with US President Barack Obama during his visit in March.
“Today cyber is part of the battlefield,” Netanyahu said. “This is not tomorrow’s warfare, it is already here today.”
Netanyahu characterized Israel as a “rising star” in the area of cyber security, and said there were two clear signs of that: the first was that one rarely heard of successful cyber attacks against Israel; and the second was the conference, which attracted representatives from around the world who came both to learn from Israel’s experience and to explore opportunities for cooperation.
The conference is sponsored by Tel Aviv University’s Yuval Ne’eman Workshop for Science, Technology and Security, and the National Cyber Bureau.
WarSclerotic 
June 9, 2013 at 8:58 PM
Guardian exposes: Most of NSA’s web-gathered intel focused on Iran
According to The Guardian, a data-mining tool called the ‘Boundless Informant,’ shows the American agency collected nearly 3 billion pieces of intelligence from computer networks over a 30-day period ending in March 2013.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/world/guardian-exposes-the-nsa-s-tool-for-classifying-intelligence-gathered-on-the-web.premium-1.528662?localLinksEnabled=false
June 9, 2013 at 9:02 PM
The Guardian: Boundless Informant: the NSA’s secret tool to track global surveillance data
Revealed: The NSA’s powerful tool for cataloguing global surveillance data – including figures on US collection
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/08/nsa-boundless-informant-global-datamining
In case you click at the map, look at the figure for DNR (Dial Number Recognition).
The figure will blow you away.
June 10, 2013 at 4:45 AM
Interesting. If I read the map correctly, red denotes countries under the highest scrutiny. Note that Israel is just as red as Iran.
June 10, 2013 at 5:17 AM
According to the list it is Jordan which is #3.
Did you notice the DNR-figure. 124 billion phone numbers that were dialled where recognized. I guess they stored the phone numbers that were dialled and god knows what more.
June 10, 2013 at 2:43 PM
Somehow I feel the content of most communications are stored somewhere on a huge server. This may be the next big revelation, including commenting on sites like this one.
By the way, did I mention that I think Obama is a wonderful President and a great guy? 🙂
June 10, 2013 at 5:22 AM
Whistleblower Behind the NSA Surveillance Speaks Out – Full Interview
June 11, 2013 at 11:22 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON