Hezbollah

Why You Don't Need to Worry About Your Phone Exploding: Debunking The Exploding Pager Incident

Supply Chain Sabotage: The Exploding Pager Incident, Instagram’s New Teen Privacy Measures

| | Cyber Security, cyber threat, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, Digital Privacy, education, Episodes, Explosives, Hezbollah, Information Security, Infosec, Instagram, lebanon, Meta, Pagers, parental controls, Parents, Podcast, Podcasts, Privacy, security, social media, Social Media Safety, Social Media Security, social network, technology, teens, Weekly Edition
In Episode 347, we discuss the recent alarming incidents involving exploding pagers targeting Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon, which resulted in multiple casualties. We clarify why this is not a cyber attack and ...
Shared Security Podcast

Remotely Exploding Pagers

| | bombs, Hezbollah, Terrorism, Uncategorized
Wow. It seems they all exploded simultaneously, which means they were triggered. Were they each tampered with physically, or did someone figure out how to trigger a thermal runaway remotely? Supply chain ...
Schneier on Security
brute-force

How Extremists Groups Radicalize Recruits Online

| | Hezbollah, isis
Anyone with access to the internet can have their voice heard. And this is exactly the philosophy behind the extremist online radicalization and recruitment efforts of various terrorist organizations, including Hezbollah and ...
social engineering, attacks, media Media cybersecurity

Hezbollah Amplifies Message Through Savvy Use of Media

| | facebook, Hezbollah, Iran, IRGC, israel, lebanon, social media, Social networks, Twitter
Hezbollah, the “Party of Allah” (aka Party of God) recognized as a Shi’a Islamist political party and militant group based in Lebanon, has repeatedly demonstrated its mastery of the use of media ...