Ivison: There is a remarkable lack of public outcry when it emerges that cyber-attacks were committed by Russia, China, Iran or North Korea.
The frontline defence against such bad actors is the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (Cyber-centre), which issued a threat assessment last year. “We judge it is very unlikely that cyber threat actors will intentionally seek to disrupt Canadian critical infrastructure and cause major damage or loss of life, in the absence of international hostilities,” it concluded, reassuringly.
Yet sources with a view behind the national security curtain say that what is happening currently in terms of cyber-attacks “is actually quite hot.” The continual attempts to disrupt government and commerce “would be an act of war in a different era” said one person with knowledge of recent denial of service incidents. “We’re in a conflict, it just looks a little bit different.”
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