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Cyberespionage and influence operations. Reading the US State Departments mail. Risk management and strategic complacency. Volumetric attacks. Keeping suspect hardware out.

Published: March 31, 2021, 7:30 p.m.

Charming Kitten is back, and interested in medical researchers\u2019 credentials. Russian services appear to have been reading some US State Department emails (it\u2019s thought their access was confined to unclassified systems).\xa0Risk management practices and questions about the risks of growing too blas\xe9 about \u201cmanagement.\u201d Recognizing the approach of an intelligence officer. Volumetric attacks are up. Joe Carrigan examines a sophisticated Microsoft spoof. Our guest is Donna Grindle from Kardon on updates to the HITECH ACT. More concerns, in India and the US, about Chinese telecom hardware.\nFor links to all of today's stories check out our CyberWire daily news brief:\nhttps://www.thecyberwire.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/10/61\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices