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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....

The Austrian-based company Tricentis has announced the acquisition of the Israeli start-up Testim, which has developed an AI-based platform for testing automation offered as a cloud service. The value of the deal is estimated at $ 200 million. Testing will expand Tricentis' testing platform and help it simplify their automation and enable organizations to perform rigorous end-to-end testing quickly and easily. Trisentis customers will now have the flexibility to choose products and services that suit their needs, in a local installation model with a fee for annual licensing or in a cloud...

The escalation in relations between Russia and Ukraine and estimates that the situation could explode in the coming days, prompted this week the Israeli high-tech companies and the manpower companies that work with them, which together employ about 15,000 workers in Ukraine. The companies were organized ahead of time for temporary evacuation of workers and their families within the country (from east and south to west); For their transfer to neighboring countries such as Poland and Bulgaria; As well as finding alternative workspaces in case of need and providing satellite internet in case...

The Israeli high-tech industry is very fond of saying that there is a shortage of workers. Here comes the Central Bureau of Statistics trying to put things in order: 14,000 software developers are missing. However, this number expresses only a small part of the story. To think that only 14,000 workers are missing in high-tech is a form of thinking that is appropriate for a governmental and public body and not for an industry that is moving fast and not waiting for initiatives from the state