A senior official at Canada’s spy service says the enlargement of our on-line world is making it simpler for overseas adversaries to pilfer secrets and techniques.
Cherie Henderson, an interim assistant director with the Canadian Safety Intelligence Service, tells a defence convention as we speak {that a} overseas agent not must sidle as much as their goal in a bar.
They are often at a keyboard in a foreign country, making an attempt to find a Canadian goal’s private system on a pc community.
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In some circumstances, Henderson says, data gleaned on-line may help make it potential to do old style espionage in individual.
She says there are lots of nations that need Canada’s top-notch know-how and don’t need to take the time to develop it themselves.
Defence Minister Anita Anand informed the convention the Communications Safety Institution, Canada’s cyberspy company, is sharing menace intelligence with Ukraine to assist defend itself towards cyberattacks.
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