{"id":26532,"date":"2016-05-11T12:04:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T02:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/?p=26532"},"modified":"2016-05-11T14:07:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T04:07:48","slug":"cyber-wrap-119","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/cyber-wrap-119\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber wrap"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Pakistani Foreign Office has reached out<\/span><\/a> to the nation\u2019s largest intel body, Inter-Services Intelligence (<\/span>ISI<\/span><\/a>), for assistance to boost its internal IT security. Government ministries in Pakistan are no strangers to<\/span> targeted online campaigns<\/span><\/a> (<\/span>here<\/span><\/a> and<\/span> here<\/span><\/a>), and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is seeking to beef-up its cyber resilience in response. The Ministry has<\/span> requested<\/span><\/a> 80 million rupees in next year\u2019s federal budget\u2014a 130% increase on this year\u2019s budget\u2014to boost the resilience of its Islamabad headquarters and communications security across its network of foreign missions. The move has raised<\/span> concerns<\/span><\/a> internally that the new role will provide ISI with undue access to the Ministries\u2019 communications, although that\u2019s been dispelled by a government official who said ISI would only have \u2018limited access\u2019 and that the work of departments remain protected by \u2018encryption codes\u2019. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Cyber Space Administration of China (CAC) recently launched an investigation into Chinese search engine Baidu, finding that the site has been inappropriately<\/a> presenting sponsored links as organically generated search results. The CAC found that Baidu was ranking returned search results based upon the advertising spend received from companies, but neglected to make this clear to the user that the results were in fact sponsored.<\/span><\/p>\n

Apple CEO Tim Cook is set to<\/span> visit China<\/span><\/a> this month to undertake talks with senior government and CCP representatives. The visit comes at a tumultuous time in the relationship between the tech giant and economic powerhouse, with Beijing recently<\/span> suspending<\/span><\/a> several of Apples online services on the mainland and<\/span> concerns<\/span><\/a> surrounding China\u2019s new counterterrorism law.<\/span><\/p>\n

Last month US General Vincent Brooks<\/span> spoke to<\/span><\/a> US Senate leaders about the online threat posed by North Korea. In news that won\u2019t surprise readers of our<\/span> 2015 Cyber Maturity Metric<\/span><\/a>, Brooks rated North Korea\u2019s online abilities as \u2018among the best in the world and the best organized\u2019. To counter the growing cyber threat from North Korea, last week the US and South Korea<\/span> agreed<\/span><\/a> to deepen cyber cooperation. Speaking in Seoul, Secretary of State John Kerry pointed the finger at Pyongyang for carrying out \u2018provocative, destabilizing and repressive actions\u2019 online and warned that North Korea will be \u2018will be held<\/span> accountable<\/span><\/a> for their actions.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

The Canadian government is moving to block two Huawei employees from entering Canada on<\/span> espionage concerns<\/span><\/a>. Canadian border officials have advised the pair that their entry will be denied under section<\/span> 31 (1) f<\/span><\/a> of the country\u2019s immigration act, with authorities holding \u2018a reasonable belief\u2019 that they are part of an organisation which may be engaged in acts of \u2018espionage, subversion or terrorism.\u2019 It\u2019s<\/span> extremely rare<\/span><\/a> for applicants to be rejected for a Canadian visa based on espionage concerns. The workers and their employer deny any involvement in espionage. Huawei is<\/span> frequently accused<\/span><\/a> of state-sponsored espionage; the company was<\/span> barred<\/span><\/a> from tendering for the construction of Australia\u2019s NBN in 2012 on national security grounds. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On the home front, the International Cyber Policy Centre recently welcomed senior Australian and Spanish public sector and business leaders to Canberra for a 1.5 track dialogue. Co-hosted with the Spain\u2013Australia Council Foundation, discussions centered around national public and private sector perspectives on cyber security and sought to identify areas of possible cooperation between Australia and Spain. Spanish Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Ignacio Yba\u00f1ez opened the dialogue, noting that cyber security cooperation and private sector engagement was a significant area of potential growth in our bilateral relationship. He noted that geographic distance was no longer a barrier to the relationship between Spain and Australia given our networked and connected world. He emphasised shared values as an enabler of cooperation on issues such as norms, conflict risk reduction and cyber security incident response. The dialogue identified several areas of potential future cooperation between Spain and Australia\u2014including CERT collaboration, best practice and threat information sharing for critical infrastructure protection and coordination of efforts in global cyber capacity building through shared membership in institutions such as the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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