Pinkerton Insights Podcast

Each week, we break down international news into our four quadrants of risk and present ways to mitigate those risks. See below for the key issues from this week’s edition: technology and information risks: - Cyber-security firm Bitdefender Labs has published a whitepaper noting the discovery of a new variant of the Terdot banking trojan. - Earlier this month, cyber-security experts from Palo Alto Networks discovered that the Toast Overlay Attack method was integrated into live malware distribution for the first time. - In Sweden, an investigation commissioned by the government proposed that the police should have the right to conduct secret data reading and interception of online communications without prior approval from the court. Operational and physical risks: - Per Pinkerton Vigilance Network sources citing government authorities in Indonesia, the armed separatist group the West Papua National Liberation Army has detained at least 1,300 people in the villages of Kimberly and Banti since November 10. -