Cyber & Internet

Phone numbers of 3.9 million Israelis among those available virtually for free. In a statement, Facebook says data is “very old” and related to an issue it fixed in 2019.

Tal Prihar, an Israeli living in Brazil, is indicted for running a darknet website for illegal firearm and drug transactions.

Hackers seeking to shutter the Elector application breach files that include the personal information of nearly all Israeli voters, including names, phone numbers, addresses, assigned voting stations, gender, and email address. Data appears to be updated as of 2020.

When comedians Efi Skakovsky and Meni Wakshtock created their skits, they tailored them to the Haredi audience. Little did they know they would prove to be successful among secular Israelis too. 

Among the items now removed from the website included SS guard figurines and miniature Nazi tanks.

Israeli cybersecurity expert Menny Barzilay warns that for the first time in history, crime is being led by the smartest people in the world. "Detection is not enough; we have to be able to detect attacks that we did not stop and respond effectively," he says.

Anger mounts as Facebook feeds in Australia go dark after social media giant blocks all media content in a dramatic escalation of a dispute with the government overpaying for content.