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Blind Israeli hacking brothers baffle authorities
News A pair of blind computer-mavericks from Israel have been detained and charged with cracking into the Israeli Defence Force radio station using customised braille and voice-activated gadgetry. Israeli prosecutors accuse the Badirs of remotely...
[October 22, 1999, 11:36]
Airstrikes prompt defacement of Israeli websites
Blog While the Israeli Defence Forces are busy putting footage of their bombing of the Gaza strip on YouTube, militant hackers are attempting to deface Israeli websites. The website Arabic Mirror, which charts website defacements by hackers, shows a...
[January 2, 2009, 16:31]
OpenOffice.org development boosted by Arab and Israeli collaboration
News Similarities between the Arabic and Hebrew languages have enabled groups of Israeli and Arab developers to assist each other in solving common problems developing local versions of OpenOffice.org software.
[October 14, 2004, 18:00]
Microsoft suing Israeli spammer
News Microsoft has filed a lawsuit against an Israeli man suspected of sending spam. The software giant alleges that Amir Gans, head of marketing company New Approach, has sent 10 million junk emails and is responsible for half of the spam sent from...
[February 28, 2005, 14:30]
Pro-Palestinian virus hits Israeli firms
News A handful of companies have been hit by a computer virus named Injustice that causes a victim's computer to send pro-Palestinian messages to 25 Israeli organisations and government agencies. Once opened, the program will display an anti-Israeli...
[March 20, 2001, 10:35]
OpenOffice.org development boosted by Arab and Israeli collaboration
Talkback The worst outcome of the West's domination of technology is the fact that computers naturally work from left to right. Had the Turks won the Battle of Vienna in 1683, or had the Moors won the Battle of Granada in 1492, right-to-left languages would...
[November 24, 2004, 19:57]
Israeli ISP Strengthens Competitiveness With Enhanced E-Mail Hosted-Messaging Solution
White Papers Internet Service Provider (ISP) NetVision operates Nana, one of Israel's most popular portal Web sites. To meet growing competition, NetVision wanted to enhance its free e-mail service Nana Mail with new features.
[April 26, 2008, 1:02]
Do we need a biometric passport?
Blog A couple of days ago, Israel approved the bill for creation of biometric database of all Israeli citizens. Israeli government is going to start issuing biometric "fake-proof" electronic passports. Writing about the problems they will face I could...
[August 6, 2008, 16:02]
Israel falls to Biometrics trap. Who's next?
Blog Israeli Government approves bill calling for creation of database of all Israeli citizens. Data to include fingerprints, computerized facial features embedded on IDs, passports. The government approved Sunday a motion calling for the establishment...
[August 4, 2008, 16:29]
Investors brave Israel conflict
News In the third quarter, 87 Israeli high-tech companies raised $381m (£200m) from venture investors. In the first nine months of the year, Israeli companies have raised $1.15bn, up 7 percent from the $1.07bn raised in the same period last year.
[October 31, 2006, 12:41]
IE holes open up Web booby traps
News An Israeli Web-application company has warned users of Internet Explorer that nine related security flaws in the program could be used by malicious hackers to gain access to a victim's computer files.
[October 23, 2002, 8:09]
Blind brother hackers appear in court
News Three Israeli brothers -- all blind, all hackers -- appeared in court in Israel Tuesday accused of 42 separate cyber-crimes. The brothers, Munther Badir 22, Muzhir Badir 23, and a younger brother who cannot be named for legal reasons were arrested...
[November 2, 1999, 14:02]
Palestinian guilty in email death-trap case
News A Palestinian woman was found guilty on Sunday for the voluntary manslaughter of a 16-year-old Israeli schoolboy that she met on the Internet. Sally" was not Jewish, but in fact a Palestinian photographer, Mona Amna, who had set out to entice an...
[April 9, 2001, 14:18]
Four held in Israel for Goner virus
News Four Israeli teenagers have been remanded in custody on suspicion of writing the malicious Goner email worm, which is thought to have spread more rampantly than last year's infamous Love Letter virus.
[December 10, 2001, 10:24]
Middle east cyberwar heats up
News An online battle between Israeli and Palestinian vandals escalated this week with the theft and public posting of a database containing the personal information of 700 members of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee on Wednesday and the...
[November 6, 2000, 15:49]
'Electronic jihad' played down
News Security experts downplayed media reports that an "electronic jihad" aimed at Israeli Web sites will start on Thursday. We've seen this before, with the focus being on sending racist emails, and defacing and hacking Israeli Web sites.
[August 26, 2004, 8:10]
Middle East cyberconflict could spread, says FBI
News Growing conflict between Israeli and pro-Palestine computer hackers is in danger of spiralling out of control, the FBI has warned, leading to further email flooding and denial of service attacks. These defacements sparked further attacks on Israeli...
[October 31, 2000, 13:29]
A Year Ago: Blind brother hackers appear in court
News Blind Israeli brother hackers accused of 42 cybercrimes Three Israeli brothers -- all blind, all hackers -- appeared in court in Israel Tuesday accused of 42 separate cybercrimes. The brothers, Munther Badir 22, Muzhir Badir 23, and a younger...
[November 2, 2000, 6:16]
It's not electronic, it's not a card and it's not Christmassy, but...
Blog As part of a scheme to make young people more interested in nanoscience, researchers from the Haifa-based Technion research institute - or Israeli Boffins as The Age has them - have put an image of the entire Old Testament in Hebrew onto a 0.5mm...
[December 21, 2007, 15:28]
The new age of hacktivism dawns
News The defacements followed a spate of similar online graffiti posted by pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian activists over the past month. Citing concerns for their Muslim cousins, the duo has defaced Israeli-affiliated sites such as Banyan Systems...
[November 8, 2000, 14:45]
