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The aerospace industry launches the Scorpius family, the first electronic warfare system (LA) of its kind in the world with reception capabilities, blocking and disrupting several threats at different frequencies and in different directions at the same time. And disrupt the activity of enemy systems in a targeted manner, using multiple transmission beams at the same time. The threats handled by the system are from a wide range and include aircraft, drones, ships, missiles, means of communication and more. Unprecedented that it is possible to detect a large number of threats with different...

Nova, which develops measurement solutions for chipmakers, is expanding into another field and increasing its potential market. Nova, under the management of Eitan Oppenheim, has signed a binding agreement to acquire the German company Ancosys for $ 100 million in cash, including a payment of $ 10 million contingent on the performance of the acquired company. Nova estimates that the transaction will be completed in the first quarter of 2022 and it is expected to increase its profit on a non GAAP basis within 12 months of its completion. Ankosis is a private company headquartered in...

The Social Security website crashed on Wednesday afternoon and soon returned to activity for the most part. The Social Security explains that the reason for the fall was a cyber attack on the site. According to the Social Security, the attack focused on loading information on the site and was handled by the Social Security cyber and computer personnel. The Social Security emphasizes that no databases were hacked at all and that public information is preserved. The Social Security cyber and computing blocked access from abroad, thus returning the site to operation. Alex Steinberg, product...

Israeli information security company Check Point reports that Iranian elements tried to attack targets in Israel, using the giant loophole Log4j that was exposed last week. According to Check Point, a group of hackers from Iran tried to attack seven government and business targets in Israel in the last 24 hours. "The experiment took place yesterday between 16:00 in the afternoon and 2:00 in the morning. No such communication was observed with targets in any country other than Israel. Of course, the findings were passed on to the relevant authorities in the country," it was reported. Check...

Severe criticism of Israel from Facebook's parent company: Meta tonight published an extensive report on a months-long investigation conducted by the company, and mapped the activities of spy and surveillance companies on its platform. Of seven companies starring in the report, five are Israeli or have ties to Israel. In all, the seven companies in the report attacked about 50,000 people in 100 countries, including journalists, human rights activists, and opponents of the regime. Meta announced that it had blocked the companies on its platforms. Of the seven companies starring in the...

Chip giant Intel has announced that it has decided to provide its employees around the world, and also in Israel, with benefits worth more than $ 2 billion, half of which will be reflected in benefits in the salaries of the company's employees and more than $ 1.4 billion will be in options granted to employees. Most of the benefits are intended for existing company employees and a small portion of it is intended for new employees. The company currently employs about 110,000 employees worldwide, of which about 14,000 in Israel. If the payment is divided equally, which is unlikely to happen,...

The rate of academics among women in management positions is higher than the corresponding figure for male managers. The same is true of seniority at work and experience. Managers also declare a higher level of commitment to the workplace from managers, and higher prices they pay on the family front - according to regular surveys conducted by the Central Bureau of Statistics. Even when the number of weekly working hours is taken into account, managers earn about 30% more than managers on a monthly basis. A new study, based on data from the Central Bureau of Statistics, shows that after...

H2PRO, which develops technology for producing green hydrogen, is currently in the midst of a $ 70 million round of funding. The leading investor in the current round of funding is Temasek, a Singapore-owned holding company that manages the country's wealth fund with $ 283 billion in assets. In September 2020, Temasek acquired control of the Rivolis drip irrigation product manufacturer from the Pimi Fund at a company value of $ 456 million. It is estimated that the current round of funding for H2PRO will be based on a company value of $ 250-300 million before the investment

Google acquires the Israeli cyber company Simemplify for an estimated amount of hundreds of millions of dollars. A little while ago Google issued an official announcement about the deal. According to the announcement, Simplify will join the Google Cloud security team, "to help companies deal more successfully with cyber threats." This is Google's largest acquisition in Israel since it acquired Waze for $ 1 billion, and the first time it has acquired a company in the cyber field - which indicates its intention to establish an activity in the field of information security here for the first...

Another corona year has passed and the patterns of Internet use in Israel continue to surprise: The screen managed us this year as well - in one day we spend an average of 3.2 hours in front of the TV, 2.4 hours surfing the net, 2.1 gaming, and another 2.8 hours in which we scroll endlessly on social networks. WhatsApp is the undisputed queen - 90% of Israelis over the age of 18 are not willing to give up using the messaging app. At the time of the international glitch on meta servers (formerly Facebook, which owns WhatsApp), 25% of respondents chose not to communicate with other people....