{"id":29486,"date":"2022-08-28T12:24:52","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T12:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/?post_type=news&#038;p=29486"},"modified":"2022-08-28T12:26:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T12:26:18","slug":"ono-instructor-addresses-white-hat-hacking-of-polices-emergency-application","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/news\/ono-instructor-addresses-white-hat-hacking-of-polices-emergency-application\/","title":{"rendered":"Ono Instructor Addresses \u201cWhite-Hat\u201d Hacking of Police\u2019s Emergency Application"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\">\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"wp-image-29487 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/08\/Ran-Bar-Zik-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/08\/Ran-Bar-Zik-2.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/08\/Ran-Bar-Zik-2-218x218.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\r\n<p><strong>Ono Instructor Addresses \u201cWhite-Hat\u201d Hacking of Police\u2019s Emergency Application<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The Police\u2019s \u201c100\u201d emergency services application evidently has a lot of the personal data of Israel\u2019s citizens. Ono computer science lecturer Ran Bar-Zik was recently interviewed on Radio Tel Aviv\u2019s \u201cFree Market\u201d program where he discussed a study undertaken by computer scientist Noam Rotem analyzing the police application\u2019s security.<br \/>Bar-Zik said that the study uncovered some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that there are \u201cprivate keys\u201d which give their holders access to the citzens\u2019 data on the police\u2019s servers. The researcher was able to access such a key and with it he was able to view some very sensitive information.<br \/>The good news is that Rotem contacted the police with the findings of his research and found them to be very solicitous of his critique. They pored over his discoveries and made immediate corrections that fixed the problems. Bar-Zik was complimentary of the way the police responded to the situation.<br \/>The conversation led into a deeper discussion of the differences between \u201cwhite hat\u201d, \u201cgrey hat\u201d and \u201cblack hat\u201d hackers.<br \/>Bar-Zik, a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Ono Academic College, is also a technology columnist for Israel\u2019s Haaretz newspaper, a \u201cwhite-hat\u201d hacker, who exposes internet security vulnerabilities for the purpose of protecting society, a technology blogger and a computer programmer.<br \/>The complete interview can be heard starting from 03:00, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifatmediasite.com\/ms\/radio\/2022\/05\/16\/11425250.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ono Instructor Addresses \u201cWhite-Hat\u201d Hacking of Police\u2019s Emergency Application The Police\u2019s \u201c100\u201d emergency services application evidently has a lot of the personal data of Israel\u2019s citizens. Ono computer science lecturer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":29487,"menu_order":431,"template":"","class_list":["post-29486","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/29486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}