Canada’s foreign signals intelligence agency says government networks have weathered a lot of cyber security “incidents” but no successful attacks in the last two years. In 2017, the national resources, energy and environment departments were hit hardest, while the incidents on “government administration” networks spiked in 2018. “Many of these kinds of incidents are ultimately mitigated by other security actions deeper in the networks before they can have any significant impact,” said CSE spokesman Ryan Foreman. If the attacks continued at the same pace in 2018, the government administration incidents would have risen by 63 per cent. Although that was an uncommonly serious episode, many security incidents run along similar lines: an incident — usually a mistake by a developer — allows easy access for an attack.

Source: National Post February 14, 2019 18:45 UTC