US president blew cover off an Israeli computer unit’s infiltration of isis, which found it was planning to blow up airliners with exploding laptops

Top Israeli cyberoperators penetrated a small cell of extremist bombmakers in Syria months ago, the officials said. That was how the United States learned that the terrorist group was working to make explosives that fooled airport X-ray machines and other screening by looking exactly like batteries for laptop computers,” the report said The intelligence was so exquisite that it enabled the United States to understand how the weapons could be detonated, according to two American officials… (www.timesofisrael.com) Altro...