[ISN] Unit 8200 and Israel's high-tech whiz kids

http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2012/06/04/Unit-8200-and-Israels-high-tech-whiz-kids/UPI-43661338833765/

UPI.com
June 4, 2012

TEL AVIV, Israel, June 4 (UPI) -- Israel's highly secretive Unit 8200 of 
Military Intelligence is increasingly seen to have played a leading role with 
the United States in developing a powerful new cyberweapon known as W32.Flame 
that attacked Iran's oil industry in April.

Veterans of the unit, the equivalent of the U.S. National Security Agency and 
Britain's Government Communications Headquarters, have in recent years been at 
the cutting edge of building Israel's formidable high-tech sector into what the 
Financial Times calls a "global technology powerhouse."

Indeed, the proliferation of Unit 8200 alumni across the spectrum of Israel's 
high-tech industry suggests that they probably run it and that there are strong 
security links between the unit and civilian high-tech outfits.

Israel's high-tech exports are estimated to be worth $18.4 billion a year, 
comprising more than 45 percent of the Jewish state's exports, Central Bureau 
of Statistics data indicate.

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