HAMIEH FROM BEIRUT AIRPORT: WE MUST ACTIVATE CYBER SECURITY, BREACH SOURCE TO BE DETERMINED WITHIN DAYSEmigration Ministry Appeals to Egyptian Students in Sudan not to Head to Conflict-Stricken Areas

Caretaker Minister of Public Works and Transportation, Ali Hamieh, on Monday affirmed in a press conference held at Beirut's Rafic Hariri International Airport's Directorate General of Civil Aviation that "the airport is operating normally today, and there have been no issues regarding flights." 'Almost 70 percent of the airport screens are now functioning as before, while work is ongoing sequentially on the remaining ones,' Hamieh added. Beirut airport faced a cyber-attack that compromised the flight information display system on Sunday. Throughout the airport, screens displayed a message directed towards "Hezbollah and Iran'. "We are an official administration, and it's incumbent upon us to activate cybersecurity. What occurred is not a result of negligence. Some damage occurred, and efforts are underway to rectify it," the Minister affirmed. "We have taken precautionary measures; we have disconnected the internet from the airport to isolate the damage," he continued. Responding to a query about ident ifying the nature of the breach, Hamieh stated, "We are collaborating with specialized security agencies, and an answer will be provided within days to determine whether the breach was internal or external." "Today's challenge is to implement comprehensive measures and secure the funding for them to prevent a recurrence of what happened, ensuring 99 percent security,' Hamieh concluded. Source: National News Agency - Lebanon The Ministry of Emigration and Egyptian Expatriates' Affairs issued an appeal on Sunday to the Egyptian students in Sudan not to head to conflict-stricken areas to save their lives. The ministry said in a statement it has recently noticed that many Egyptian students studying in Sudan, who were evacuated from there after the start of the military operations, have returned back to Sudan in order to finish their study documents and some of them continued their study after returning to their universities. The ministry added that the conflicting parties are intensifying their operations in the states which host universities, saying it received a number of appeals from students' families to return their home. Source: State Information Service Egypt