Israel’s military was trying to minimise civilian casualties in Gaza, but Hamas was effectively using Palestinian civilians as human shields, the Israeli Defence Forces spokesperson has said. “Hamas, purposely embeds its military infrastructure within the civilian population creating an almost impossible situation where they are using Palestinian civilians as their human shields while they fire…
Cybersecurity firm Rapid7 revealed that an unauthorized party accessed some of its source code in a security incident linked to the Codecov supply-chain attack. Last month, Codecov disclosed a security incident involving its Bash Uploader script, a tool that provides a framework and language-agnostic method for sending coverage reports to Codecov. The company…
The current situation which has seen increasing violence in Gaza and Israel was entirely started by Israel, the foreign affairs adviser to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has said. It was not about telling militants to stop firing rockets, but in the beginning “stopping Israeli aggression,” Dr Nabil Shaath told BBC World News on Thursday. Weeks…
The Israeli-Gaza conflict can be ended if Hama stops firing rockets, Jerusalem’s deputy mayor Fleur Hassan-Nahoum has said. She told BBC World News on Thursday that Hamas had been looking for a war for some time: “They have been planning this for months. The Palestinian Authority are trying to distract people from cancelling an election.”…
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report features an analysis of the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack and the response. In this report, you’ll hear (click on player beneath image to listen): The ISMG Security Report appears on this and other ISMG websites on Fridays. Don’t miss the April 30 and May 7 editions, which…
[co-author: Tawanna Lee] On May 12, 2021, President Biden issued the long-expected Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity (“EO” or “Order”). The EO comes amidst a series of high-profile cyber-attacks on the Nation and its critical infrastructure, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) supply chain providers, and federal contractors, adding a heightened sense of urgency…
A British trade union is demanding an apology from the West Midlands Trains rail company for running a phishing readiness test disguised as a bonus payment reward for staff that worked through the Covid-19 pandemic. The Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association (TSSA) published the text of the phishing email, which was made to look like it…
Critical Infrastructure Security , Cybercrime , Cybercrime as-a-service Company Says It Will Take Several Days to Restore Supply Chain Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • May 12, 2021 Photo: Pete D via Flickr/CC Colonial Pipeline Co. announced Wednesday that it had restarted its operations following a ransomware attack last Friday that forced the company to…
Critical Infrastructure Security , Cybercrime , Cybercrime as-a-service Company Says It Will Take Several Days to Restore Supply Chain Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • May 12, 2021 Photo: Pete D via Flickr/CC Colonial Pipeline Co. announced Wednesday that it had restarted its operations following a ransomware attack last Friday that forced the company to…
Critical Infrastructure Security , Cybercrime , Cybercrime as-a-service Company Says It Will Take Several Days to Restore Supply Chain Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • May 12, 2021 Photo: Pete D via Flickr/CC Colonial Pipeline Co. announced Wednesday that it had restarted its operations following a ransomware attack last Friday that forced the company to…
