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Cyber

Software Supply Chains, Foreign Laws And Technology Pose Emerging Threat Areas, Intel Report Warns

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, July 27th, 2018

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Software Supply Chains, Foreign Laws And Technology Pose Emerging Threat Areas, Intel Report Warns

William "Bill" Evanina, director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center. Photo: Office of the Director of National Intelligence

A new report from the intelligence community warns that software supply chains, foreign laws in China and Russia, and foreign technology companies that are linked to their governments pose emerging threats to the cyber security of U.S. critical infrastructure.In 2017 there were seven significant security events worldwide related to software supply chains versus four each in 2014 and 2016, a “watershed” in number of reported cyber incidents through this threat vector, says the report, 2018 Foreign Economic Espionage in Cyberspace…

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