Cybersecurity
Israeli Government Websites Crash in Suspected Cyberattack
- Ministries of health, justice among government pages down
- Israeli cyber firm says unlikely significant damage caused
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A cyberattack crashed a number of Israeli government websites Monday, according to the country’s cyber officials.
The Israel National Cyber Directorate blamed the outages on a denial-of-service or DDoS attack. Such incidents typically involve outside attackers directing waves of inauthentic traffic at a website, temporarily rendering it inaccessible.