Recently, Yigal Unna, Director General of the Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD) claimed that they saw zero successful cyber-attacks against Israeli “critical national infrastructure” in 2019. Such a statement would no doubt incite great patriotism in the unacquainted Israelite but is far from true.
We can say so through a couple of facts. Firstly, it is a widely accepted notion in the cybersecurity industry that anything can be hacked no matter who’s behind it. Secondly, Eitan Caspi, a security researcher exposed certain vulnerabilities found in Israeli government websites last week.
He did so through an online SSL checker tool by Qualys which basically lets you know how well configured an SSL certificate is and whether it is implemented correctly. This is very important as the mere presence of a certificate does not make the site secure, other crucial parameters are also involved which includes protocol support, key exchange, and cipher strength.
The tool assesses these to calculate a numerical score which then is translated to a grade.
Therefore, out of the 17/21 domains analyz ..
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