NIS asks 2,100 public institutions to conduct emergency cybersecurity checks

Korea's spy agency has asked 2,100 public institutions to conduct emergency cybersecurity inspections following a series of cyberattacks on financial firms that resulted in customer data breaches, government sources said Tuesday. The National Intelligence Service (NIS) has called on the central government agencies and local governments to carry out their own security checks based on a checklist, the sources said.…