Researchers say Stuxnet was deployed against Iran in 2007

Published on February 26, 2013

Researchers at Symantec Corp. have uncovered a version of the Stuxnet computer virus that was used to attack Iran's nuclear program in November 2007, two years earlier than previously thought.

This Week from Israel

By Noga Gur-Arieh
Published on November 5, 2012

This week from Israel

By Noga Gur-Arieh
Published on October 8, 2012

Italy to fight anti-Semitism in cyberspace

Published on July 19, 2012

The Italian government plans to introduce new legislation to beef up measures countering anti-Semitism and hate speech in cyberspace.

Flame virus can sabotage computers, attack Iran, expert says

Published on June 21, 2012

The powerful Flame computer virus is not only capable of espionage but it can also sabotage computer systems and likely was used to attack Iran in April, according to a leading security company, Symantec Corp.

U.S., Israel developed Flame computer virus, according to anonymous Western officials

Published on June 19, 2012

The United States and Israel jointly developed the Flame computer virus that collected intelligence to help slow Iran's nuclear program, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday, citing anonymous Western officials.

Gerald Estrin, computer pioneer in U.S. and Israel, dies

Published on April 3, 2012

Gerald (Jerry) Estrin, a computer pioneer in the United States and Israel who built the first computer in the Middle East, has died.

Looking for chametz in car, coat and computer

Published on March 29, 2012

Who are the chametz seekers, those dutiful service technicians who in preparation for Passover, and for a fee, help us search and destroy the hidden, unexpected unleaven in our lives?

Hackers strike Israel again

Published on February 2, 2012

An international group of pro-Palestinian hackers said they leaked the credit card details of thousands of Israelis in an escalation of cyber attacks on Israeli targets.

Hail to the geek

Published on January 25, 2012

The real heroes of our age are pencil protector geeks. They sit at home, behind their keyboards, determining the rules of the game that you and I live by -- and we trust them to do so. They love toys. They love games. They enjoy battle. They are at the forefront of the cyber war that is enveloping the world.

Saudi-Israel hacker war heats up

Published on January 12, 2012

The hacker war between Israel and Saudi Arabia is continuing, with the release of the credit card details of more Israelis.

Israel concerned it may be under cyber attack

Published on January 6, 2012

Israeli officials said on Friday they were concerned the country may be under cyber attack after a wave of credit card code thefts in the past week by a hacker who claims to be operating out of Saudi Arabia.

New computer virus detected in Iran

Published on November 14, 2011

A computer virus similar to the Stuxnet virus that attacked Iran's nuclear program last year has been detected in Iran.

New Stuxnet-like computer virus discovered

Published on October 19, 2011

A computer virus similar to the Stuxnet virus that attacked Iran's nuclear program has been identified.

Leave a message after the beep

By Julia Bendis
Published on September 11, 2011

Great Doctor must not exist!

By Julia Bendis
Published on January 4, 2011

Thank you, God, for not smiting my Mac

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on July 29, 2008

UCLA’s new hospital takes technology to new frontiers

By Nancy Sokoler Steiner
Published on June 26, 2008

During a procedure, surgeons can use a touch-screen panel or voice commands to display and control images, adjust room lighting, or phone a colleague. They can access patient histories, X-rays and lab results, and use their fingers on the console to draw -- just like a football commentator -- on images displayed on a screen.

Israeli invention could pave way for hydrogen cars

By David Shamah
Published on April 24, 2008

Everyone's heard that old story about the scientist who invents a "magic pill" that turns water into gasoline -- with the invention eventually getting into the hands of the oil companies that bury it, fearing they will be driven out of business when word gets out about their competition

Should laptops be allowed in class?

By Emma Lipner
Published on April 3, 2008

Laptop use involves a lot of controversy, from students who believe they should be used to their maximum potential to those who don't want to see laptops at all.

Have laptop, will prosper

By Rob Eshman
Published on November 22, 2007

Last Shabbat at Sinai Temple Rabbi David Wolpe stood at the bimah to deliver his sermon -- and brought out a small, colorful laptop to push his congregants to participate in a remarkable, world-changing program called One Laptop per Child. One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is the name of a USA-based nonprofit launched in 2005 by Nicholas Negroponte and faculty members of the MIT Media Lab, with the goal of bringing computer technology to the children of the developing world.

Joyce Rabinowitz: A Type Like No Other

By Jane Ulman
Published on January 5, 2006

Joyce Rabinowitz, 76, is a volunteer Braille transcriber. She takes the printed word and, using a special computer program called Braille 2000, transforms it letter by letter into a prescribed set of dots that she saves to disk and gives to the Braille Institute. Each disk, with the help of an embossing machine, is used to produce a book written in raised dot text that a blind person can read with his or her fingers.

Spectator - The Holy Land of Progress

By Chanan Tigay
Published on October 6, 2005

The Israeli firm, M-Systems, developed flash technology that allows huge amounts of computer data to be stored on a key chain.

‘On_Line’ Takes Byte Out of Cyberspace

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on June 19, 2003

"I got hooked peering into the lives of strangers," said Jed Weintrob, a self-described Jewish "techno geek." "It was both calming and mind-blowing to log on and see Jenni on Jennicam.org who was also awake at 4:30 a.m., but in the end it was also kind of alienating.... You're watching this person do the most intimate things, yet you're never going to know them or touch them."

Staying Supple

By Marlene Adler Marks
Published on October 12, 2000

Leo Cohen wanted to see my PalmPilot.

"How do you put in the data?" he asked.

We were just completing our pre-fast family dinner, and I'd taken out my snazzy, whiz-bang electronic calendar to demonstrate it to Leo's son-in-law, Sam, an astronomer who gets his data from the sky, not from bytes in his Palm.

But if Sam was blasé, Leo was emphatic.

Space Cadet

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on July 13, 2000

When Los Angeles artist Victor Raphael was a boy, he gazed at the biblical murals at Wilshire Boulevard Temple and pondered the divine. His cosmic musings, in the age of Apollo and Sputnik, led him to dream of becoming an astronaut. But when the need for eyeglasses made that dream impossible, he invented another way to visit the stars.

Internet Activism: Power, No Accountability

By James D
Published on April 20, 2000

By now it's a cliché: the Internet, a medium that gives anybody with a computer access to a worldwide audience, is changing the way we share information. And, because information is power, it also changes the way we do politics.

Protecting the Net

By Avi Machlis
Published on April 20, 2000

It is hard to take seriously a conference that provides free pizza and Coca-Cola to participants wearing tags with names like Nothingmuch, Cyphunk and Blacktiger. But for more than 350 computer geeks who came out of the cybershadows to participate in Y2hacK, an international hackers conference in Tel Aviv, this gathering was no laughing matter.

A Hi-Tech Jewish High

By Tom Tugend
Published on October 14, 1999

The Milken Community High School celebrated the completion of its campus construction Sunday, putting the final touches on the nation's largest non-Orthodox Jewish high school -- and its most high-tech -- bar none.

Pursuing Holocaust Claims

Published on July 16, 1998

A new sophisticated computer database may help theheirs of Holocaust victims receive the benefits of insurance policiestaken out by long-deceased relatives.