Bad Contractors

Even more of a reason to have a solid Third Party Assessment program within your organization. Not one, or two, but three Israeli defense contractors who built the Iron Dome missile defense system were compromised by hackers. How were they hacked? One of them fell for email phishing attacks…

Once in the Israeli Aerospace Industries network, trojans and various tools were set up on systems. Eventually, 762 MB of data was taken, including dumped password hashes, system, file and network information. Information was gathered that allowed to gain access to Elisra.

More about this here.

This picture is how I feel we are certainly migrating war to.

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