"Israel" Electric Corporation Suffers 20,000 Cyber-attacks A Day, Fears Hizbullah Threats
"Israel" Electric Corporation (IEC) suffers between 10,000 and 20,000 cyber-attacks every day, Yiftach Ron-Tal, chairman of the IEC board revealed Tuesday.
Speaking at the annual cyber summit hosted by the so-called "Israel Institute for National Security Studies", Ron-Tal admitted that "a cyber-war is a prolonged one and unlike a single tactical strike, it's far more dangerous and may take longer to recover from."
The IEC chair explained that the Zionist entity's recognized hacking attempts via viruses, false passwords etc. "We can also easily detect the source of the strike, but we can't necessarily pinpoint it to an exact location," he noted.
According to the "Israeli" official, "the five main source-locations for attempted hacks into "Israel's" power grid are the United States, China, Russia, South Korea and "Israel"."
"The number of hacking attempts from Iran is relatively about 100-200 a week," he added.
On Hizbullah's recent threats to attack the sensitive electrical grid in case of "Israeli" aggression against Lebanon, Ron-Tal warned that "the online grid, is under serious threat."
"IEC's management is based on internet technology, with only two major networks - an operational one and an administrative one," he stated.
Former "Israeli" Military Intelligence Chief Amos Yadlin also spoke at the conference.
"The cyber world is like the next Pearl Harbor and even like a nuclear bomb," he warned. "Because it's so complex and so impalpable, you can also refer to it as a kind of 'The Emperor's New Clothes."
"We have no history to reference, and no one that knows the subject with any real depth," he said.
According to Yadlin, "We speak openly about cyber defenses, but there are two other issues - cyber warfare and cyber espionage - which are not discussed openly
."
Source: Ynet, Edited by moqawama.org
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