News Insight: U.S. Hunts Chinese Malware That Could Disrupt American Military Operations

The New York Times is reporting that American intelligence officials believe Chinese malware could give China the power to disrupt or slow American deployments or resupply operations, including during a Chinese move against Taiwan.

News Insight:

According to Joe Saunders, CEO, RunSafe Security, “The threat of a ticking time bomb like this malware means we need to double-down our efforts to achieve not just memory safety in software in the long term, but memory protection in software immediately. Otherwise we take the risk of losing our ability to support our warfighters and maintain a normal sense of operation in society.”