Re: Spymaster sees Israel as world cyberwar leader

[Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>]

On 12/18/09 7:41 PM, Gadi Evron wrote:
> On 12/18/09 7:19 PM, Gadi Evron wrote:
> > Spymaster sees Israel as world cyberwar leader
>
> My take on the subject:
> http://gadievron.blogspot.com/2009/12/spymaster-sees-israel-as-world-cyberwar.html

I need to give this more thought. I will publish again after I research 
more.


> > http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BE30920091215
> >
> >
> > Using computer networks for espionage -- by hacking into databases -- or
> > to carry out sabotage through so-called "malicious software" planted in
> > sensitive control systems has been quietly weighed in Israel against
> > arch-foes like Iran.
> >
> > In a policy address, Major-General Amos Yadlin, chief of military
> > intelligence, listed vulnerability to hacking among national threats
> > that also included the Iranian nuclear project, Syria and Islamist
> > guerrillas along the Jewish state's borders.
> >
> > Yadlin said Israeli armed forces had the means to provide network
> > security and launch cyber attacks of their own.
> >
> > "I would like to point out in this esteemed forum that the cyberwarfare
> > field fits well with the state of Israel's defense doctrine," he told
> > the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), a Tel Aviv
> > University think tank.


-- 
Gadi Evron,
ge () linuxbox org.

Blog: http://gevron.livejournal.com/
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