'New Axes Of Evil' - North Korea and Iran are both caught moving weapons; Israel shores up its cyber defenses.

'New Axes Of Evil' - North Korea and Iran are both caught moving weapons; Israel shores up its cyber defenses.(TOI).The Friday front page of Haaretz focuses on North Korea and how the rogue nation stole the spotlight this week from Iran’s nuclear talks with the US. The paper also includes a profile of Kim Jong Un, the North Korean leader, which includes recent highlights from his regime, including a marriage, a nuclear test, and a visit from former NBA star Dennis Rodman.
Haaretz also includes a short article about American sources stating that North Korea has moved missiles and could be preparing a launch.

That movement of missiles may not have raised alarm bells at Haaretz, but it is the top story over at Israel Hayom – “At the push of a button,” reads the article headline. The paper includes an opinion piece by Boaz Bismuth, who tries to explain the recent rise in tensions on the Korean peninsula. “What North Korea really wants is recognition, not war,” Bismuth writes. He goes on to state that the balance of power between North Korea and the United States is laughable, but the Americans aren’t laughing, partly because they don’t have a clear intelligence picture on the country. He writes that North Korea is using the nuclear option to ensure the survival of the regime, just like Iran.

Carl in Jerusalem brings us the following story: Israel preparing for cyber attack!

The attack is set for Sunday, April 7 — coincidentally, or perhaps not, the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day in Israel. Computer system administrators and security experts have been shoring up network defenses, changing passwords, and ensuring that they have the Internet bandwidth to withstand an attack.

In their latest screed, the hackers behind the newest incarnation of #OpIsrael, the ongoing attempt to “wipe Israel off the map of the Internet,” appealed for unity in the hacker community, which needed to come together to attack Israel. “We can’t be consumed by our petty differences any more,” said the message, posted on hacker-friendly websites. “We will be united in our common interest. We will once again be fighting for freedom.” In a theatrical flourish (using a quote from the 1996 film “Independence Day,” which portrayed mankind fighting off a Martian invasion), the hackers state: “’We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We’re going to live on, we’re going to survive.”

While the attacks are aimed at government, bank, academic, and business websites (the hackers have published extensive lists of their targets), ordinary Israelis should take precautions as well — just in case, said the Israel Internet Association (ISOC), which is taking the threat so seriously that it will be operating a hotline (03-9700911) for people to report attacks, and will update its website throughout the day with status reports about what is going on in cyberspace.Hmmm.......Unknown to them, they are heading for eternal judgment, they think they are coming to make war against God, but they are being gathered for judgment. ~ Isaiah 13:6-8. Read the full story here and here.

Iranian Minister of Communication and Information Technology: "Iran Faces 500 Daily Cyber Attacks."

Iranian Minister of Communication and Information Technology: "Iran Faces 500 Daily Cyber Attacks."(Fars)."In some cases, we are targeted by 500 cyber attacks against our internal networks on a daily basis," Taqipour told reporters after a cabinet meeting in Tehran on Wednesday. In relevant remarks on Monday, Iranian Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi announced that Iran is involved in massive and continued cyber war with the enemies who make constant attempts to harm the country's infrastructures, saying that Iran's highly skilled experts have deterred all enemy threats.
"These threats are posed every day and the intelligence apparatus counters and obviates enemy's actions in the cyber space every day," Moslehi said. He underlined Iran's capability of deterring cyber threats, and said, "The Islamic Republic is so powerful in the cyber space that (even) leaders of the arrogant powers admit and acknowledge our country's successes as well."
Iran announced in June that it had detected plans by the United States, Israel and Britain to launch a massive cyber strike only days after talks between senior Iranian and western negotiators in Moscow. In the last few years the United States and Israel have created several malware - including the Stuxnet worm, which is reportedly the most malefic piece of malware ever created, and its kin, Duqu, as well as the Flame malware - and used them to attack Iran's nuclear facilities.
But, Iran has successfully repelled all these cyber attacks as it has continued its nuclear progress all these years. Taqipour announced in July that Iran has successfully confronted sophisticated spy malwares and thwarted all cyber attacks against the country's infrastructures. Speaking to FNA, he divided viruses into two categories, first for public users and the second for spying purposes.
As regards the second category, the Iranian Minister said, "The second type (of viruses) has been developed by governments and are specifically sent via governments, and their mission is spying on infrastructures and the like. All of them have so far been confronted and our preparedness to do so (defusing cyber attacks) is growing on a daily basis." He said in some days, Iran was targeted by two million cyber attacks, but could confront and repel all these malware attacks. Read the full story here.