Inside The Elite Israeli Military Unit 8200

Ariel Parnes joins host George Rettas, president and CEO of Task Force 7 Radio and Task Force 7 Technologies. Ariel is responsible for designing and delivering Mitiga’s cyber security solution set. Mitiga is a stealth cyber security company out of Tel Aviv, Israel.

https://www.cshub.com/threat-defense/articles/inside-the-elite-israeli-military-unit-8200

Ariel spent over 20 years as an 8200 unit member before retiring as a colonel. The unit, which is comparable the United States’ National Security Agency or the UK’s GCHQ, is the largest single unit of Israel’s Defense Forces. During his time with the unit, Ariel held roles in intelligence, information technology, offensive and defensive cyber security operations, and cyber warfare. He was awarded the prestigious Israel Defense Prize for technological breakthroughs in cyber security.

Ariel believes the success success of the military branch is due to a couple of things. For one, each year, new talent enters the military. He credits the unit’s constant energy and innovation to the continuous addition of fresh-minded young soldiers.

Second, the unit is in constant demand. The digital ecosystem is rife with challenges that 8200 is called upon to work on. For example, it is currently providing the Israeli Health Ministry with data science expertise to analyze the evolving COVID-19 situation.

Finally, 8200 started out as a SIGNIT unit, but its talented leaders saw the need to take a disruptive approach to IT which laid the foundation for its successful cyber security capabilities.

The Secret Wars of Unit 8200 and U.S. Cyber Command

https://paranoidechochamber.com/unit-8200/

Israel’s Unit 8200 may be small but pushes others around like the diminutive younger brother of a giant- picking fights it would not pick without the security of knowing that the giant has it’s back. Sources in the US government have pointed to Israeli aggression as an unnecessary nuisance that compromises U.S. safety – particularly their aggressive Military Intelligence unit known simply as Unit 8200. What you may not know about the brash, bold and aggressive Unit 8200 is that they are equally responsible for creating tools of destruction as they are for the cool new outfit your new style app picked out for you.

Unit 8200 was able to repurpose the algorithms used to track and prevent suicide bombings to produce Stylit – an app for choosing clothes, and Waze the popular ‘alternative route’ driving app. However Unit 8200 is hardly just a bunch of stylish Israelis helping you be a snappy dresser or get to work on time – they may be responsible for dragging America into global conflict.

In 2010 a cyber security firm known as Symantec discovered a virus that had almost 15,000 lines of code, no bugs and utilized four zero day exploits. The programming time and skill including undiscovered zero day exploits in the virus were appraised by Symantec to be worth over a million USD. A “million dollar virus” copying and spreading all over the world is a far cry from the usual bug laden viruses from the usual suspects of Chinese or Russian teenagers.

Symantec dubbed the super virus “STUXNET” based on the combination of two words STUB and XNET, but is referred to as Operation Olympic Games amongst the US Cyber Command & NSA. Stuxnet was never intended to become the global phenomenon that it did, but largely due to Unit 8200’s aggressive short-sighted alterations it spread wider and further than ever initially intended.

U.S. Cyber Command is the US Government’s digital warfare department and is the aggressive arm of the NSA, and happens to operate out of the same building as the NSA. U.S. Cyber Command has specific targets and goals that could be compromised, unlike the NSA whose job is to vacuum and index all information. The public may not very familiar with Cyber Command for a variety of reasons: nearly all of it’s activities are top secret, they have no practical oversight for their operations and there currently is no pressing enough reason for the public to know about them.

Most rational citizens understand the need for classified information for ongoing military operations, at least to a limit. U.S. Cyber Command does not need to have their missions and operations blown due to public oversight. From a military perspective, the U.S. Cyber Command operates most best out of the public eye as they originally intended Stuxnet to be.

Mechanisms of virus resistance and antiviral activity of snake venoms

https://www.scielo.br/j/jvatitd/a/4t336LPCxsb59MZhx4tpPCp/?lang=en

Abstract

Viruses depend on cell metabolism for their own propagation. The need to foster an intimate relationship with the host has resulted in the development of various strategies designed to help virus escape from the defense mechanisms present in the host. Over millions of years, the unremitting battle between pathogens and their hosts has led to changes in evolution of the immune system. Snake venoms are biological resources that have antiviral activity, hence substances of significant pharmacological value. The biodiversity in Brazil with respect to snakes is one of the richest on the planet; nevertheless, studies on the antiviral activity of venom from Brazilian snakes are scarce. The antiviral properties of snake venom appear as new promising therapeutic alternative against the defense mechanisms developed by viruses. In the current study, scientific papers published in recent years on the antiviral activity of venom from various species of snakes were reviewed. The objective of this review is to discuss the mechanisms of resistance developed by viruses and the components of snake venoms that present antiviral activity, particularly, enzymes, amino acids, peptides and proteins.

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Follow The Money

Money gets us what we want when we want it, if we

have it. Its power seems unquestionable, dominating, and

to a degree, subject to the laws of physics. It can move at the

speed of electrons and in the form of waves. Cell phone

technology seems destined to eliminate the friction from its

transactional pathways. The economic value created through

these energy fields, which we measure in money, has been

compromised by the desire

to accumulate. In the stories we tell about money,

net worth or wealth is a

metric of success that fails

to indicate money’s ethical

basis—one that ignores the

process of how the accumulation happened and what

it produced along the way.

Storing money has

trumped using it as an end

in itself, and wealth accrues

to the individual without

regard to the commonwealth.

It seems absurd to

accept as valid the idea of

accumulating that which is

inherently circulatory in

nature: currency. But

money, like physics, is

subject to the dominant materialist world view. Despite this,

a different view is emerging. Just as physicists push the

boundaries of science to the metaphysical, so do we need to

reframe the boundaries of economic life to include the values

of spirit. Just as the stories of good that wealth has done tend

to be told in the warmth of human interest and responsibility,

we need a new economic story that invites and assumes

the presence of our spirit, our capacity for ethical action, in

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I have been struggling to understand the state of ethical

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awakening sense that there

is something wrong in the

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policy, something so off

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surfaces as flagrant inequity