Secret Shin Bet Unit at The Front Lines of Israel's Cyber-War

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http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/179925

By Tova Dvorin
Arutz Sheva
4/25/2014

Several weeks ago, a vigilante by the name of "Buddhax" made waves when he 
exposed the true faces - and names and passwords - of several anti-Israel 
hackers who participated in the #OpIsrael project to launch a cyber-attack 
against Israel.

Now, nearly one month later, Channel 2 revealed Friday the existence of 
another party responsible for keeping Israel's cyberspace safe: a secret 
unit of the Israeli Security Agency (ISA), or Shin Bet.

Tens of hackers work in S-74, the codename for the Shin Bet unit which 
protects Israeli cyberspace. For days, they will cluster around their 
computers, tracking the suspicious movements of "Anonymous" hacktivists 
around the world. Then, just moments before a hack will disrupt a system, 
they will strike - without anyone even knowing the Shin Bet was involved.

"We have prepared well in advance, we follow networks around the world 
closely and collect intelligence through HUMINT and SIGINT [human 
intelligence and signals intelligence, respectively - ed.]," Alon, an S-74 
member, revealed to the daily Friday.

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