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Ketchup on the Server: How the Bank of Israel was hacked

Yul Bahat at All The Talks 2020 - Security

In 2008, the official website of the central Bank of Israel was defaced to include anti-Israeli propaganda. The forensic investigation that followed revealed massive oversights, misconfigurations, security holes and a general complete lack of awareness for cyber security practices.

The website was down for three days while the Israeli e-Gov security team investigated the incident and restored its operations.

This is their story

Yul Bahat

Mr. Yul Bahat (CISSP) is a veteran global Cyber Security specialist and evangelist. Before co-founding EM3 Labs, a boutique consulting firm based in Paris, France, he was the Senior Information Security Specialist at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Head of Security Intelligence for the Israel E-Gov agency, and Head of Information Security Audits for Aman, a leading Israeli consulting firm. Mr. Bahat holds a BA in Computer Science and an MBA.