Cyber & Internet

Bezeq, Israel’s largest telecoms group, has long sought permission from the Communications Ministry to allow it to offer speeds of more than 100 Mbps.

List of major companies boycotting the social media giant grows as does the demand that it clearly alert its users to the nature of the posts they see. Founder Mark Zuckerberg loses $7.2 billion as Facebook stock plummets over advertisers' pullout.

Social media giant says Iran's state broadcaster has used hundreds of fake social media accounts to covertly spread pro-Iranian messaging online since at least 2011, targeting voters in countries including Britain and the United States.

“At times like this, any information about cures or tests or vaccines relating to coronavirus would be priceless and the priority of any intelligence organization of an affected country,” expert says.

Criminals are dressing up password-stealing messages and malicious software as coronavirus-themed alerts, warnings, or apps used in phishing scams, cyber expert warns.

One of the tweets on Naftali Bennett's account read "freedom for Palestine," along with an image of a Palestinian flag. Another tweet was the Turkish national anthem translated into English.

The operations disseminated content sympathetic to each side of a diplomatic row that has divided the Middle East since 2017.

According to the Child Online Protection Bureau, 7,655 cases of online abuse were reported in 2019. The majority of victims are between the ages of 12-14. Most of the perpetrators of the abuse are between 13 and 16 years old.

"NSO is a private player using capabilities that Israelis have, thousands of people are in the cyber field, but there is no Israeli government involvement here, everyone understands that, this is not about the state of Israel," Minister Ze'ev Elkin says.

"Gravez," by app developer Corido, offers turn-by-turn voice directions to help visitors navigate large graveyard. Corido used drones to map over 1.3 million graves in 30 cemeteries nationwide. The app is only available in Israel for now, but developers plan to expand globally.