In-brief: Russia, China and North Korea are increasingly willing to use offensive cyber operations to weaken their enemies, including the United States, according to a report by the firm Flashpoint, which released its Business Risk Index report on Tuesday.
Security Ledger Editor in Chief Paul Roberts speaks with Jon Condra, the Director of East Asia Research at the firm Flashpoint. Condra is the author of Flashpoint’s Business Risk Intelligence Decision Report which presents the firm’s thinking about major cyber security actors including Russia, China, North Korea and Iran, and trends, including cyber crime and hacktivism.
In-brief: Experts from two security firms are warning that a newly discovered piece of malware dubbed Crash Override is designed to shut down and even damage electrical substations and other components of the electrical grid.
In-brief: data from the firm BitSight finds a link between outdated web browser and operating system software and headline-grabbing breaches. Are we surprised?
In-brief: the U.S. healthcare sector is in critical condition and needs urgent, coordinated action to protect patient safety and address vulnerabilities in millions of deployed medical devices, a Congressional Task Force has concluded. (Updated with comments from Joshua Corman of Atlantic Council. PFR June 7, 2017)
