Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A 38 North exclusive with analysis by Jack Liu. News reports suggest the possibility of an impending fifth nuclear or mobile ballistic missile test to celebrate the birthday of Kim Jong Un’s grandfather, Kim Il Sung, on April 15. Recent commercial…
Pulling the Rabbit Out of the Hat: Kim Jong Un’s Path Out of the Nuclear Crisis
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Everyone has a pet thesis about what is going on and what will happen on the North Korean issue over the next several months. In mid-January, I laid out what seemed to be six likely possibilities to keep in mind. Ten…
North Korea’s Punggye-ri Facility Appears Ready to Support New Nuclear Tests
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A 38 North exclusive with analysis by Jack Liu. Recent commercial satellite imagery indicates continued activity at North Korea’s Punggye-ri nuclear test site that does not appear directed at further tunnel excavation but rather to maintain existing tunnels as well as…
Is North Korea Preparing for a Fifth Nuclear Test?
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A 38 North exclusive with analysis by Jack Liu. Recent news reports citing South Korean intelligence sources state that North Korea is preparing for its fifth nuclear test. Such a reaction to pending United Nations and US sanctions is possible given…
The Challenge of Predicting Future North Korean Nuclear Tests
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A 38 North exclusive with analysis by Jack Liu. Summary The latest North Korean nuclear test at the Punggye-ri test site apparently surprised the international community as there were few indicators seen before it took place. Unlike the 2013 test, when…
North Korea’s Yongbyon Nuclear Facility: Slow Progress at the Experimental Light Water Reactor
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A 38 North exclusive with analysis by William Mugford. Summary Recent commercial satellite imagery of the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center has revealed new developments over the past six months, most recently in January 2016, suggesting that North Korea’s Experimental Light…
ISIS to unleash TENS OF MILLIONS of jihadi hackers on West in blitz worse than NUCLEAR WAR
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The computer security expert, who invented the McAfee anti-virus software, claimed “fifteen to 25 percent” of the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims are extremists, meaning ISIS could have an army of 400 million fanatical followers ready to strike at any minute. Computer…
Pennsylvania nuclear plant worker to trial for child pornography police found on work computer
A former western Pennsylvania nuclear plant worker has been ordered to stand trial on charges he downloaded child pornography pictures on his work computer because he was bored. The Beaver County Times (http://bit.ly/1l8UMkE ) reports 60-year-old Raymond Fischer Jr., of Harmony, will stand trial in May now that he waived…
Zero Day Weekly: Uber-Lyft hack war, DHS forced into cybersecurity strategy, ICS nuclear threat
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Welcome to Zero Day’s Week In Security, ZDNet’s roundup of notable security news items for the week ending October 9, 2015. From The Hill: Senate Democrats press T-Mobile on data breach “Three Senate Democrats are seeking answers from credit agency Experian…
Most nuclear plants not prepared for cyber attack, says Chatham House
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Most nuclear power plants around the world are not well prepared for cyber attacks, according to a report by international affairs think tank Chatham House. Many of the control systems used for nuclear plants, including those in the UK, are not well protected…
