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IDF Hackers Test Readiness In Israel For Cyberattacks
cold fjord points out a profile in Al-Monitor of Israel's cyber-defense group, formed to test the country's defenses to electronic warfare and information theft. Groups, really, since it's run blue-vs-red style, with constant scenario preparation and intrusion attempts. The two (anonymized) leaders of the Blue and Red teams talk about the mind-set and skills that it takes to be in their unit, which they point out is not the place for soda and pizza hijinks. Says "Capt. A": "We are constantly preparing for the next war or the next drill. And in between, we may have some fun dissecting the system and drawing conclusions together. The idea is to instruct the monitoring bodies, [and] to make them understand what they should look for and how to respond."
Offense and defense.
...they point out is not the place for soda and pizza hijinks.
I would think it was Manischewitz and matzah! Or is that only for Friday night hacking? Then it's back to pizza and soda *wink* *wink*?
Can't we all just be purple? Or in this case, the chosen purple.
Did you mean God's chosen purple?
They're spying on us again, not that they ever stopped. This isn't a 'drill'. It's thinly disguised espionage. But, since we're 'on the same side', it's all okay.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Groups, really, since it's run blue-vs-red style, with constant scenario preparation and intrusion attempts. The two (anonymized) leaders of the Blue and Red teams talk about the mind-set and skills that it takes to be in their unit, which they point out is not the place for soda and pizza hijinks.
And with that comment, they just admitted how screwed they are. And the irony is, they probably don't realize it, and even if pointed out (as I will now do), they'll steadfastly deny it.
Being good at hacking requires two things. Firstly, the ability to upload into your skullmeats vast amounts of seemingly meaningless information, trusting that later context will give it meaning and purpose. You need to be able to open up a thousand page tomb, and in under a week, hoover-vac that into your brain. This is the primary required ability for you to be good at hacking. Without it, no matter how much of a creative genius you are, you will find yourself quickly outpaced by your peers who can do this. Computers are enormously complex, and networking them adds yet another layer of complexity. Being able to rapidly absorb and retain a working knowledge of these interactions in complex systems is a job requirement.
However, that is only half the equation. The other half is to be able to see all of that, and yet arrive at a different conclusion than all the other guys. You can be a good administrator or technician if you can simply absorb large amounts of data, but you are going to royally suck at hacking if you arrive at the same conclusions they did. Hackers are both walking encyclopedias, and have a funny habit of belching out random facts and then stringing them together in a way that nobody else has, probably without being aware of it. They pull theories together from dozens of different technical disciplines, finding that thermodynamics and heisenburg uncertainty somehow jam really well with why those styrofoam containers of ramen, regardless of the amount of water put in them, invariably overflow in the microwave. And they'll do this while working out some chunk of complex code in their head absent-mindedly.
You cannot achieve this zen-like state of abstract concentration needed to hack while taking what you're doing as seriously as this guy. You can't have a military attitude to what you're doing -- you can't be focused on the risks, on the enemy, on the stakes. You need to be able to take all of that, and forget it. The only thing you need to do, is solve the problem. You need to work that problem, and you need to do it with a style of thinking that... frankly, scares the hell out of people in authority or in the military... because they don't understand how you could care less who you're fighting, as long as you get to fight back in some way that's.... wait for it... Nifty.
Israel... I like you, I really do. So please, reassign this guy to something more in line with his attitude... like ordinance technician. Don't put him in charge of a cyberwarfare unit... that's like putting Martha Stewart in charge of flight operations on a carrier. It's just sooo not playing to their strengths.
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cold fjord points out a profile
Great, now even blatant shills are submitting content.
I guess when your country does things like create stuxnet, you could probably expect a repercussion or two, huh?
Really?
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a fictional Faerûnian deity in Dungeons & Dragons
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
And this place goes all Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion.
I had no idea slashdot was so full of haters and conspiracy theorists.
So in other words, they're unleashing another Stuxnet on the world? Fuck off Israel.
captcha: disciple
Or am I not the only one who thought now this is the perfect time to strike using the dreaded word' 'cyber' attack.
The red team likely will think you are one of them and help you and the blue team wont sound an alarm when they should.
..to spy on anyone, including US citizens, information about which the NSA has been caught read handed giving, wholesale and unredacted, to israel. You're ok with this? My, aren't you trusting.
I think you forgot to log into your main account. Either that or you expect us to believe that you have minions and fans at the ready to drop large lists of your propaganda threads, which is truly charming! You should bring your sock puppet Jeremiah cornelius into this, he's totally convincing.. just kidding.
Mindless disinformation spam.. yes. Threads about the NSA or Israel are always full of distractionary anonymous shitposting. Ever wonder why?
Why are the IDF even bothering to pay for this positive media coverage where they have the impenetrable super-unhackable IT infrastructure?
I think they are just as vulnerable as everyone else.
LOL!
You use the info to get people favorable in power. Those people represent their own voters less. Democracy is undermined, they flip to become dictatorships.
SURPRISE!
Happened against and again as the US ended up undermining democracies and installing dictators. Latest case of this is Egypt.
"Who cares if Israel spies on the U.S."
NSA provides them the data, they use it to undermine democracy in the USA. That's why you send them 2 billion a year, because nobody can be elected to put an end to it.
Israel is eventually less interested in cyber-attacks, compared to real-world attacks. As soon as the series of whatever "springs" topple the targeted mid-east regimes and disband their thoroughly incompetent, yet still significant standing armies, the David-starred Merkava tanks will be rolling across the region to occupy all the lands of so-called "Greater Israel" spanning between the rivers of Nile and the Tiger and Euphrates. Over a hundred million arabs and muslims will be forcibly displaced to make place for jewish settlements and kibbutzim. This will eventually result in a huge war, possibly a world war between China and Iran (maybe even Russia) in the defensive corner and the USA-UK-Germany-IL, ie. the axis of zionism.
The american warhawk "christian zionists", more precisely described as millenialist / kilialist heretics, just cannot wait to see that day come when Jesus returns to judge us in the form of many H-bomb fireballs... The recent victory of Merkel in Germany means the wild dream of "Greater Israel" is closer to being realized than even, because she has already overtaken the USA as the foremost financial aid and military gear supplier of Tel-Aviv. Why do they need submarines with extra-large torpedo tubes that are only good for launching nuclear-tipped criuse missiles? Never mind, just keep producing them, dear Krupp-werke warft! There are 6 more of the Dolphin class to deliver for free and they are impatient!
Being born in the purple was a great honor in Byzantium.
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