{"id":21268,"date":"2016-01-27T21:04:21","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T05:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/israel-hit-with-massive-cyberattack-targeting-electrical-grid"},"modified":"2017-04-24T22:45:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T05:45:14","slug":"israel-hit-with-massive-cyberattack-targeting-electrical-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/israel-hit-with-massive-cyberattack-targeting-electrical-grid","title":{"rendered":"Israel Hit with Massive Cyberattack Targeting Electrical Grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tjcnewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Hackers-have-crippled-Israel-s-860x450_c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cyber attacks on our power grids \u2014 As I have highlighted in my Jan 10th Pulse positing \u201cQuantum Computing \u2013 things that need to be considered for our future Quantum Computing\u201d we mush get our funding and special projects under way to prevent a possible Quantum hack by overseas hackers. Russia and China are both ramping up their infrastructures to be Quantum to protect their citizens and we must do the same.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Israel\u2019s Electric Authority has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/3026604\/security\/israels-electric-grid-targeted-by-malware-energy-minister-says.html\">revealed<\/a> its systems have been the target of a \u201csevere cyberattack\u201d which, while under control, is yet to be fully repelled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had to paralyze numerous computers of the Israeli electricity authorities\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Minister of National Infrastructure says: \u2018We are handling the situation and I hope that soon, this very serious event will be over <\/strong>\u2018.<\/p>\n<p>Steinitz, meanwhile, told information security conference attendees that the attack against the Electricity Authority is a reminder of \u201cthe sensitivity of infrastructure to cyber-attacks, and the importance of preparing ourselves in order to defend ourselves against such attacks\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tjcnewspaper.com\/israel-hit-with-massive-cyberattack-targeting-electrical-grid-251715\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyber attacks on our power grids \u2014 As I have highlighted in my Jan 10th Pulse positing \u201cQuantum Computing \u2013 things that need to be considered for our future Quantum Computing\u201d we mush get our funding and special projects under way to prevent a possible Quantum hack by overseas hackers. Russia and China are both [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44294,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21268\/revisions\/44294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}