NSA chief in talks with Israel over Iranian cyberattacks

Published March 28, 2016 12:15pm ET



The head of the National Security Agency was in Israel last week to discuss cooperation on cybersecurity, just as both countries seem to be preparing for a surge in cyberattacks out of Iran.

Adm. Mike Rogers was there as a guest of the commander of Israel’s Unit 8200, according to a senior Israeli official who spoke with Tel Aviv’s Haaretz newspaper. Unit 8200 is the intelligence unit that worked with the NSA to create the Stuxnet worm that for years ravaged Iranian uranium enrichment facilities and impeded the country’s nuclear development.

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