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June 12, 2017 06:58 pm GMT

Israeli hackers pulled off something few other nations have

Israeli government hackers were recently able to do something few others have been able to manage: They hacked the Islamic State. 

The nation's cyber sleuths were — according to The New York Times — a significant force behind a recent hack that laid bare the secrets of ISIS bomb builders.

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Israeli hackers learned that bomb designers were focused on constructing explosives that look a hell of a lot like laptop batteries, built to make it through airport x-ray machines. (This, by the way, is the intel that United States President Donald Trump spilled to Russian government officials at the White House not too long ago).  Read more...

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