Exploding pagers and spying cranes in ports: Trusting your infrastructure can be dangerous

From interest.co.nz

Media reports are coming in about a second wave of exploding communications devices used by Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon, walkie-talkies this time. The reports say there were extensive casualties, with 14 dead and 450 wounded. Following the earlier pager explosions in Lebanon, the gruesome events underline that "supply chain warfare" can be devastatingly effective and very difficult to prevent. Supply chain compromises are nothing new however, and they can take different forms which operators of critical infrastructure must pay attention to. In New Zealand, a spokesperson for the Port of Auckland authority ... (full story)