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The aerospace industry will partner with the international accelerator MassChallenge, to launch a path for the development of unique sensor technologies called Future Sensing. This track is designed for startups that develop sensors in high frequency, quantum, photonics, acoustics, ultrasonic and any disruptive technology in the world of sensing, or fusion of information from sensors. The aerospace industry will operate through its subsidiary Elta, offering start-ups a significant collaboration that includes access to customers and markets around the world that Elta operates, and...

American Equity Fund Helman Friedman signed a purchase deal with Israeli cyber company Checkmarx this morning. The company was fully sold in a cash deal for $ 1.15 billion. However, as part of the Checkmarkx shareholder's deal, including Insight - they have exchanged some of their proceeds in acquiring shares, as is customary in private equity deals. The company was sold through a quick auction process that began on Thursday, during which a number of huge funds were bidding on the deal. And it closed in three days. This is Insight's first sale in Israel, and it gives it a significant...

On Tuesday, the Corona Commission chaired by MK Ofer Shelah submitted its report on its serious interim conclusions. Among other things, the committee determined that there were mental and organizational failures in decision making, poor review policy, incorrect closure. The committee was impressed that a significant portion of the policy was formulated according to the missing system. They stated in the report that "it is difficult to know whether the resistance to conducting mass tests was due to a regular theory or to the simple fact that there were simply no test kits in sufficient or...

Dozens of Israeli Internet sites were attacked by hackers of the "hackers of savior" group on Thursday. This is a planned attack that came against the backdrop of al-Quds Day. The sites, most of which are run through the WordPress platform, featured an illustrative video that allegedly attacked Israel, with the caption "Counting the Reverse of Israel Destroyed from A Long Time ago" (errors originally). Hackers wrote on the YouTube channel: "We gather here to avenge the Zionist crimes against the Palestinians who have died or lost their lives, their families and their lands. What we can do...

About 60 students from Israel from 3 academic institutions (Tel Aviv University, Hebrew University and Interdisciplinary Herzliya) participated in the L'Oreal Marketing Innovation Competition - BRANDSTORM this year and joined 40,000 students who participated in the competition worldwide. The theme of this year's competition was sustainability: BUILD A PLASTIC-LESS FUTURE IN THE BEAUTY INDUSTRY, in collaboration with L'Oreal's consumer products division. Eighteen outstanding students rose to the final stage, and last week (19.5.20) the final competition was held, as the winning team from...

The Ministry of Defense and the Aerospace Industries launched the first (second and second) night into space on the Ofek 16. This is an advanced spying satellite of Israel, joining a family of Ofek satellites that have so far been launched into space. The Defense Ministry said that the Mafia Space Agency (the Research, Development and Military Infrastructure Administration) dispatched the satellite at 4am, using a "comet" launcher. The launch of military aircraft into the air, in addition to the ground crews from the central control centers and the Palmachim. Although the launch was...

The Ministry of Defense has identified and thwarted a phishing attack against employees of the defense industries in Israel, which was intended to infiltrate their corporate computer networks, the ministry announced today (Wednesday). According to the Ministry of Defense, the investigation of the affair shows that the attempted attack was carried out by an international cyber system called "Lazarus", which is backed by a foreign country, with the help of social engineering and impersonation

An intriguing exhibit on the aerial shelf - Tiny helicopters without a pilot: IAI's multiplayer system will be presented for the first time in the coming days as an advanced technological technological solution for monitoring, observation, control and cargo transport tasks. Unlike the glider world, which is booming in the use of the IDF and other security bodies, the unmanned helicopters provide a dual advantage that lasts for prolonged stays in the air for several hours in a row and carrying heavier weights

IAI has signed a cooperation agreement with the Bosnia-Herzegovina government to establish an online cyber academy in the country. As part of the agreement, the cyber experts of the Elta Division and the Singapore subsidiary, Custody Technologies, will conduct targeted training accompanied by the company's cyber simulator / trainer, TAME RANGE, which is a unique platform that simulates a wide range of cyber scenarios and enables practice, learning and application in the field. In addition, the coach has online verification and testing capabilities of the being taught and he provides...

The cyber companies Clearsky and Profero have published a report with disturbing revelations about what is described as an "Iranian cyber attack on companies in the Israeli economy." The main points of the report are that the attack uses damage intended to encrypt the victims' computers - just like ransomware - but this time without any financial demand. Iranian hackers are content to block companies from using their data, a particularly troubling situation in days of remote work and increased use of digital to operate commercial and economic activity in the economy