Hackers in ‘white hats’ join effort to thwart the bad guys

Commuters in the Israeli port city of Haifa fumed during a particularly tedious traffic jam two years ago, never guessing that the logjam was caused not by an accident or some other relatively customary event — but reportedly by cyber attack.

It shut the city’s Carmel tunnel for eight hours, with the Associated Press later reporting a cyber attack, although the authorities never confirmed this. A hacker used a “Trojan horse” — a malicious computer programme — to shut down the security cameras monitoring the tunnel, the report said. For the full article click here 

 

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