http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BE30920091215 By Dan Williams TEL AVIV Reuters Dec 15, 2009 TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israel is using its civilian technological advances to enhance cyberwarfare capabilities, the senior Israeli spymaster said on Tuesday in a rare public disclosure about the secret program. 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. [...] ________________________________________ Did a friend send you this? From now on, be the first to find out! Subscribe to InfoSec News http://www.infosecnews.orgReceived on Thu Dec 17 2009 - 00:09:29 PST
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