Information is Power

Summary Note:  This Activity Alert uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK™) framework. See the MITRE  ATT&CK for Enterprise  and  ATT&CK for Industrial Control Systems (ICS)  frameworks for all referenced threat actor techniques and mitigations. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) encourages asset owner operators across all critical infrastructure sectors to review the below threat actor techniques and ensure the corresponding mitigations are applied. CISA responded to a cyberattack affecting control and communication assets on the operational technology (OT) network of a natural gas compression facility. A cyber threat actor used a  Spearphishing Link   [T1192]  to obtain initial access to the organization’s information technology (IT) network before pivoting to its OT network. The threat actor then deployed commodity ransomware to  Encrypt Data for Impact ...

This is to inform the general public that vacancies exist in S.1, S.2, S.3, S.4, S.5 and S.6. at Arua Academy for the academic year 2020. FEES STRUCTURE 1. Admission forms can be obtained from the school at Awindiri at a fee of 10,000=. 2. S.1, S.2, S.3, S.5 S.6 day with breakfast and lunch is 220,000=. 3. S.1, S.2, S.3, S.5 and S.6 boarding is 330,000=. 4. S.4 day is 250,000=. 5. S.4 Boarding is 350,000=. 6. Uniform comprising skirt/trouser, a regular white shirt, t-shirt, tie and sweater is 80,000=. 7. SESEMAT is 3,000= annually. 8. Arua district Headteachers Association games and sports fee is 10,000=. 9. Termly internal examination fee is 20,000=. 10. A ream of printing paper. The school is registered with Ministry of Education and sports with reg. no. PSS/A/24 and UNEB centre no. U0845 for S.4 and S.6. Candidates sit UNEB exams at the school. The school is both day and boarding. Its mixed (for both boys and girls). Its however important to n...

A new report published by cybersecurity researchers has unveiled evidence of Iranian state-sponsored hackers targeting dozens of companies and organizations in Israel and around the world over the past three years. Dubbed "Fox Kitten," the cyber-espionage campaign is said to have been directed at companies from the IT, telecommunication, oil and gas, aviation, government, and security sectors. "We estimate the campaign revealed in this report to be among Iran's most continuous and comprehensive campaigns revealed until now," ClearSky researchers said. "The revealed campaign was used as a reconnaissance infrastructure; however, it can also be used as a platform for spreading and activating destructive malware such as ZeroCleare and Dustman." Tying the activities to threat groups APT33, APT34, and APT39, the offensive — conducted using a mix of open source and self-developed tools — also facilitated the groups to steal sensitive i...

Paul Kagame. Rwandan government denied that the detention of street children in transit centers is arbitrary (PHOTO/File). The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child has asked authorities in Rwanda to take “urgent measures” to end the abuse of street children should be carried out immediately, Human Rights Watch said today. In observations released on February 13, 2020, the Geneva-based treaty body called for a halt to the arbitrary detention of children in transit centers, for investigations into allegations of ill-treatment – including beatings –, and for amendments of the legal framework that regularizes this abuse. On January 27, Human Rights Watch released a 44-page report, “‘As Long as We Live on the Streets, They Will Beat Us’: Rwanda’s Abusive Detention of Children,” documenting the arbitrary detention and ill-treatment of street children, who are held for up to six months at Gikondo Transit Center, in Kigali, the capital. Since 2017, new legislation and policies u...

A view over Beirut from the Bourj Hammoud neighbourhood, an area used by women forced into prostitution and the pimps and traffickers who control them [Daniela Sala/Al Jazeera] Beirut, Lebanon -  "How do I know most of the women working as prostitutes are controlled?" asked Paul, a volunteer for the Jesuits, a religious order of the Roman Catholic Church, before answering his own question. "[Because] the last time I tried to help one of them get in touch with an NGO, I got beaten and threatened by her captors." Everyone in Lebanon's "sex trade" seems to be involved in trafficking in one way or another: Sources at both the Internal Security Forces (ISF) and the General Directorate of General Security (GS) in Beirut told Al Jazeera that even pimps working further down the chain of command ultimately report to a bigger network of organised traffickers. Paul has learned the ins-and-outs of Lebanon's trafficking world over the years. Beirut, the Lebanes...

                        Softpower News.        Busiro South Member of Parliament, Peter Sematimba alias Pirra Sematimba says he only comes to Uganda to do business and earn money after which he flies back to his home village Los Angeles in the U.S. In an interview with one of the local televisions, Sematimba said he is only in Uganda for Kyeyo (working) and when holidays come, just like other Ugandans who take a bus to go to their upcountry villages, he travels to the U.S. It all started when the controversial legislator was asked how he spent his festive season and responded that he went to China and Los Angeles California in United States, which surprised the interviewer who then asked to know whether the MP and media entrepreneur chooses to fly abroad as the rest of the Ugandans go to villages. “When you talk about a village, In Uganda I am on Kyeeyo, it is here that I make my money just like the ...

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) charged Huawei with racketeering and conspiring to steal trade secrets from six US firms, in a significant escalation of a lawsuit against the Chinese telecom giant that began last year 2019. Accusing Huawei and its affiliates of "using fraud and deception to misappropriate sophisticated technology from US counterparts," the new charges allege the company of offering bonuses to employees who obtained "confidential information" from its competitors. The indictment adds to a list of two other charges filed by the US government last year, including violating US sanctions on Iran and stealing technology from T-Mobile — called Tappy — that's used to test smartphone durability. The development is the latest salvo fired by the Trump administration in its year-long fight against the networking equipment maker, which it deems a threat to national security. "The misappropriated i...