An Israeli company is hacking IoT for governments

in #busy6 years ago

A group of former Israeli military experts has established a unique window for piracy and is exclusive to governments that require an additional weapon for fighting terrorists and other national security threats in the digital domain.

The project has come out of hiding last Monday, called "Toka" which has a headquarters in Tel Aviv, has mentioned that it will provide the necessary tools for the espionage of any device that its customers need.

But while it will try to hack Apple devices such as the Iphone, these will have a special focus on the devices of the IoT ecosystem, which covers devices such as Amazon Echo, products for the home connected to Nest, as well as interconnected thermostats and alarms. However it should be noted that the entry of the military into the IoT has the privacy activists anxious and nervous.

With an impressive initial income of about US $ 12.5 million and having Ehud Barak the former Israeli Prime Minister as co-founder along with his "star" leadership team.

Toka hopes to exploit the market opportunity provided by the IoT, even for intelligence agencies and military units that could and are in need of their services. The number of IoT devices continues to increase exponentially on a daily basis and is expected to reach 35,000 million by the end of the year.

Brigadier General Yaron Rosen and former head of the cybernetic team of the Israel Defense Forces, now CEO of Toka, gave a private interview to a few media outlets. That an example of how their exploits in IoT could work in the real world.

"Imagine, a terrorist had taken hostages in a closed space, as the SWAT teams approached, the agents instead of breaking into space with the hostages, could have access to the connected devices beyond the walls to get video or audio in the room ".

The company still does not know if it will specialize in specific devices like Amazon Echo or Google Home, since they have to "satisfy the wishes of their customers". Toka will also offer "cyber design services" for a holistic approach to cybersecurity.

"We believe it is a new category, a developing company with full capacity in cyber technology."

All Toka's vision and mission about a safer world does not counteract the concern about the rise of professional hacker tools, which should be a cause of concern and anxiety for everyone.

Toka will not disclose the vulnerabilities it finds in the various technologies that pirate its suppliers, whose products will remain open to attacks from subjects that could take advantage of these defects. Therefore, Toka is in a process to establish an ethics committee stating that "enemy countries will not be clients."

Finally the CEO of Toka mentions that :

"Let me be completely direct, we are not doing anything that harms anyone, nothing offensive, is it something in the middle? Yes Yes it is. It's intelligence, which is a help, some binoculars for governments or allied intelligence agencies. "

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