'Track down cyber attackers,' internet authority says
By YAAKOV LAPPIN
Installing cyber defenses is a desirable but incomplete response to hacking attacks on Israeli websites, a leading internet security authority said on Thursday.Proessor Maj.-Gen. (res.) Yitzhak Beb-Israel, Chairman of the National Council for Research and Development, spoke at a cyber warfare session held by the Science and Technology Ministry at the Herzliya Conference.Comparing defensive cyber measures to the placing of security guards around restaurants to prevent terrorist attack, Ben-Israel said, "It isn't enough, we have to reach the source of those who plan [the attacks] and send the attackers."Ben-Israel said cyber threats had the potential to harm physical targets such as electricity assets, stressing that online strikes are merely a "technique."
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