Category: cyber threats

House Advances Bill Calling for Strategy to Defend, Retain Control of Subsea Cables

Among the challenges presented by the decade-long military modernization and expansion of China’s ruling Communist Party (CCP) is a “robust space program” potentially targeting more than 9,000 American-owned satellites orbiting the Earth. Space will be a battleground, Pentagon officials have repeatedly warned in Congressional hearings since February regarding President Joe Biden’s $863 billion Fiscal Year 2024…


MPs Want Annual National-Security Reports, Aid for Businesses to Thwart Cyber Threats

A committee of MPs is calling on the federal government to issue an overarching annual national-security threat assessment. The House committee on public safety says the various bodies that handle national security sometimes operate in silos, and a patchwork of reports come from different agencies. The MPs suggest someone should gather the recommendations and create…


US Health Care Is Under Attack

Commentary The United States could be under attack. In 2020, the country experienced 1,389 ransomware attacks, averaging 3.8 attacks per day. A year later, the number of attacks had risen to 2,690, representing a 92.7 percent increase, according to Security Magazine. This year, things have gotten considerably worse. In the last 12 months, ransomware attacks…


Liberal Government Formally Tables Bill That Bans Huawei From 5G/4G

The federal government has introduced a new bill it says will protect critical Canadian industries from cyberattacks and hacking, following Ottawa’s announcement last month that it would ban Chinese telecom companies Huawei and ZTE from the country’s 5G and 4G networks. Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino presented Bill C-26 to the House of Commons on June 14,…


The Looming Threat of Chinese Spyware

Commentary One of the great lessons of the past two years has been that the events poised to change our lives often percolate far from public consciousness. Gain-of-function research on coronaviruses interested almost no part of the general public until it was far too late. Critical race theory took over our classrooms long before parents…