Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Israel's Unit 8200

Unit 8200 And Israel's High-Tech Whiz Kids -- UPI

TEL AVIV, Israel, June 4 (UPI) -- Israel's highly secretive Unit 8200 of Military Intelligence is increasingly seen to have played a leading role with the United States in developing a powerful new cyberweapon known as W32.Flame that attacked Iran's oil industry in April.

Veterans of the unit, the equivalent of the U.S. National Security Agency and Britain's Government Communications Headquarters, have in recent years been at the cutting edge of building Israel's formidable high-tech sector into what the Financial Times calls a "global technology powerhouse."

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