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: - A newly published report indicates that businesses around the world were targeted by up to eight distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack attempts each day during July-September, 2017; registering an increase of 35% compared to the April-June quarter. - According to an investigation by a group of analysts at Quartz, smartphones and tablets running Android have been collecting addresses from nearby cellular towers and sending this information to Google. - Early last week, the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) issued an alert regarding multiple vulnerabilities on Intel processors. operational and physical risks: - Per reports last week, Mitsubishi Materials, a core member of the Mitsubishi Group, admitted and "sincerely apologized" for three of its subsidiaries falsifying data f