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Two senior cybersecurity figures join Cyber 2.0 advisory board

Former CIA CTO Bob Flores and former IAI cyber division head Esti Peshin will advise the firm on securing industrial and connected systems.

Former CIA CTO Bob Flores joins Cyber 2.0
Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei looks on during a meeting at the IRGC Aerospace Force achievements exhibition in Tehran, Iran November 19, 2023.

Iran's Khamenei labels protesters 'seditionists' akin to Islamic State as regime kills thousands

 An illustrative image of artificial intelligence.

Former CIA chief tech officer warns: ‘AI needs security now to avoid the Internet's fate’

An illustration depicting the Mossad emblem (L) and the Iranian flag (R).

Mossad was part of Iran’s mosaic pre-ayatollahs, what might it be there after them? - analysis


JFK assassin's CIA monitor was religious Jewish spy Reuben Efron

A deep dive into Efron’s Jewish identity does not answer those questions. But it does reveal that Efron not only worked as a spy but had a deep knowledge of the spies in Jewish tradition. 

 Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin who killed John F. Kennedy.

Voices from the Arab press: Fools are destroying our world

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

 IN STOCKHOLM, Ahmad Alloush speaks to journalists on July 15 after being granted permission by Swedish police to burn a Torah and a Bible outside the Israeli embassy, in retaliation for a previous Quran burning there. Ahmad chose to instead denounce those who would burn sacred texts.

Biden names CIA Director William Burns to his cabinet

"Under [Burns'] leadership, the CIA is delivering a clear-eyed, long-term approach to our nation’s top national security challenges," Biden said in a statement.

 CIA Director William Burns testifies before a House Intelligence Committee hearing on "worldwide threats to U.S. security", on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 9, 2023.

Russian spy chief says he spoke to CIA boss about 'what to do with Ukraine'

Spy bosses spoke soon after Wagner mutiny in June

 Sergei Naryshkin, head of Russia’s foreign intelligence agency, attends a military parade on Victory Day, which marks the 76th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, in Red Square in central Moscow, Russia May 9, 2021.

Russian agents attempted assassination of CIA informant in US

This attempted assassination on American soil adds to the growing list of accusations against Russia regarding assassinations abroad. 

 Russian and US state flags fly near a factory in Vsevolozhsk, Leningrad Region, Russia March 27, 2019

‘Fauda’ creators debut ‘Ghosts of Beirut,’ series about Mossad’s killing of master terrorist

The show dramatizes the rise and impact of Imad Mughniyeh but also includes “documentary elements.”

Hezbollah operatives pay their respects during the funeral of assassinated commander Imad Mughniyeh in Beirut's suburbs

Ex-CIA official shares Judaism, Chabad through poetry

Randy Crosby: “In this exhibit, people see the soul of creation instead of just the form of the events as described in Scripture.” 

 A portrait of David Goldberg and his late wife, Gail, hangs in the mixed-media exhibition at Milwaukee’s Ovation Senior Living Communities residence.

Ex-IDF intel. chief contradicts CIA chief on potential Iranian nuclear threat

Hayman said that Burns’ statement showed a common Western misunderstanding of the Iranian mentality which does not always move in a linear fashion to achieve its goals.

 THEN-IDF intelligence chief Maj.-Gen. Tamir Hayman speaks at a conference in Tel Aviv, 2019. He has said he prefers a return to the JCPOA that ‘would push Iran back, far-off from 90% enrichment

Any China lethal aid to Russia would come at real costs -White House's Sullivan

US officials have warned their Chinese counterparts behind closed doors about what those costs might be.

A Long March-5B Y3 rocket, carrying the Wentian lab module for China's space station under construction, takes off from Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in Hainan province, China, July 24, 2022.

Is the third intifada already here?

PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS: According to some Palestinians, it already started a year ago in the West Bank, when several armed groups sprang up.

 A PALESTINIAN YOUTH in Beita, near Nablus, faces Israeli security forces late last month.