16 August 2011

After Iran strike, Israel gets cyber unit | #cyberwar #Stuxnet #hackers

Israel's military has set up a cyberdefense division, primarily against the Iranian threat, thus boosting the country's cyberwar capabilities after it allegedly attacked Tehran's nuclear program in 2010 with the Stuxnet virus and changed the face of warfare.

The Jerusalem Post reports that the new unit in the C4I Directorate -- command, control, communications, computers and intelligence -- is headed by an army colonel who formerly commanded Matzov, the Hebrew acronym for the Center for Encryption and Information Security.

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