Israeli foreign ministry spokesperson Yigdal Palmor firmly denounced reports on Occupy Corporatism’s website last week, claiming that Israel was responsible for a recent deadly virus outbreak in the Middle East. “This B movie fantasy is not even scientifically feasible,” he told the press after Occupy Corporatism’s website accused Israel of manufacturing a bio-weapon and releasing it into Arab nations, purposely sickening two men with the deadly virus. Simultaneously, the Health Ministry …More

Vecoy Nanomedicines, a startup that uses nanotechnology to fight deadly viruses, was selected as the first place winner of the elite 8200 Association competition, officials announced July 9. The Israeli startup uses groundbreaking nanotechnology to fight HIV/AIDS and other viruses. The nano-cell technology is also capable of protecting against bio-warfare. “Our planet is a haven for viral outbreaks like never before in the history of the world,” said founder and CEO Erez Livneh, a graduate of the …More

What is being heralded as the third major cyber weapon since 2010 was discovered Monday. The same programmers that developed Stuxnet and Duqu may have authored the so-called Flame virus, which is currently targeting hundreds of computers across the Middle East. Flame-infected computers can transmit data from disk drives, record conversations using the computer’s microphone, monitor keystrokes, reconstruct texts, disable printers, delete files, register outside devices, take screenshots, and log internet …More

A computer virus similar to the Stuxnet virus that attacked Iran's nuclear program last year has been detected in Iran. Iran said Sunday that it had found the Duqu computer virus in some Islamic Republic computer systems, but that it has been contained and neutralized, the head of Iran's civil defense branch, Brig.-Gen. Gholamreza Jalali, told the Tehran Times. Duqu is designed to gather data such as keystrokes from computer systems that will help it to launch future attacks on the systems, the Symantec company …More