WEST BANK (Dispatches) – Hackers targeted the Zionist regime in 2021 at twice the international rate of cyberattacks, the Jerusalem Post reported.
According to Zionist cybersecurity provider Checkpoint, hackers targeted the occupying regime more frequently than France, Japan, the United States and Germany.
Cyberattacks directed towards the occupation regime grew by 92 percent from 2020 to 2021, while they increased by roughly 50 percent internationally.
Checkpoint reviewed data from across sixteen industries and nearly 100 countries. It noted that the most affected was the education sector, followed by the military, communications companies and internet service providers.
The largest increase in attacks targeted software vendors. They suffered a staggering 146 percent increase in cyberattacks.
Meanwhile, the Zionist regime’s ministerial committee for legislation on Tuesday approved a draft bill that gives the occupying regime broad powers to censor Palestinian digital content.
Last Wednesday, Zionist lawmakers provided preliminary approval to the bill; brought forward by MK Meir Yitzhak Halevi from judiciary affairs minister Gideon Sa’ar’s New Hope party. The bill would allow regime authorities to remove certain posts supporting “illegal activities” from social media sites.
The bill must now go through three more plenary votes.
Under the proposal, a judge would be able to issue an order requiring a content publisher, such as Facebook or TikTok, to remove posts from its website, if law enforcement agencies are convinced that a “criminal offence” has been committed through the publication of the content.
The law also gives internet service providers broad powers to block sites, including news sites, on the grounds that they “incite or invite incitement”, and refer their owners for investigation and prosecution.
The Palestinian Digital Rights Coalition and the Palestinian Human Rights Organisations Council warned of the dangerous repercussions of the law on Palestinian rights.