NSA chief ‘makes secret Israel trip to talk Iran, Hezbollah cyber-warfare’

NSA chief ‘makes secret Israel trip to talk Iran, Hezbollah cyber-warfare’

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(Worthy News) – The director of the US National Security Agency, Admiral Michael Rogers, reportedly paid a secret visit to Israel last week to discuss cooperation in cyber-defense, in particular to counter attacks by Iran and its Lebanon-based proxy Hezbollah.

Haaretz newspaper quotes a senior Israeli official as saying that the NSA chief, who also heads the US’s Cyber Command, made the trip to meet with the commanders of the IDF’s famed 8200 intelligence unit, which specializes in signal intelligence (SIGINT) and code decryption. Rogers also met with other senior Israeli intelligence officials, Haaretz said, but not IDF Chief Gadi Eisenkot or Military Intelligence director Herzl Halevi.

Over the last two years, Israel has been targeted by a number of cyber-attacks. Officials say hackers affiliated with the Iranian government and Hezbollah, a Shiite terror group long at war with Israel, were behind some of the infiltration attempts. [ Source ]

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