The Cybersecurity 202: After parliament hack, Australia learns from U.S. missteps
Officials are investigating the breach and haven’t determined yet who that state actor is, Feakin told me. He declined to discuss specific suspects of the hack and said there’s no clear timeline for if or when the government will publicly attribute the breach.
“Clearly every Western democracy is now going to have to manage this problem,” Michael Daniel, who was White House cybersecurity coordinator during the 2016 breaches, told me. The efforts to undermine the U.S. and French elections were both linked to Russia — along with less public operations in, however, that China may be responsible for the Australian breach. If true, that would complicate matters because although China has a long history of stealing information for economic and political advantage, it has no public record of strategically releasing that information to sow chaos or affect election outcomes.
“What we want to uphold today is not only the rights and interests of a company, but the right to legitimate development as a nation,” Wang said.PATCHED: The U.S. government, meanwhile, is moving full steam ahead on Congress’sJeanette Manfra, assistant director of the Homeland Security Department’s cybersecurity division, told me at RSA.
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