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GCSC Cyberstability Update, 2 August 2019
Your news update on the GCSC, its members, and relevant developments in the field of international cyber affairs. Join the conversation and receive weekly updates by signing up to the newsletter below. For more information about the GCSC, please visit www.cyberstability.org.
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This article by Dhruva Jaishankar was published by The Brookings Institution, 31 July 2019
In meetings in various international capitals this summer—from a gathering of defense ministers in Singapore to a meeting of economic policy heavyweights and CEOs in Paris—discussions frequently revolved around the impact of technology. Of course, technological developments have long had implications for the global economy and international security, whether the advent of gunpowder or the railways, or the mastery of radio or nuclear fission. But with the “return of history” we may also be witnessing a return—after an anomalous period of positive-sum progress—of the geopolitics of technology. The scale and speed of this technological change makes it difficult to completely internalize the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead for the world’s major powers.
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How the Army is strengthening cyber cities
This article by Mark Pomerleau was published in Fifth Domain, 31 July 2019
Cybersecurity has become an ecosystem in which the public and private sector must work together to ensure safety. Recognizing this, the Army’s cyber think tank has staged an ongoing series of exercises looking at how domestic cities respond to major cyber incidents (and what testing the seams reveals about how the local infrastructure cybersecurity can affect overseas deployments).
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This article by Stacy Cowley and Nicole Perlroth was published in The New York Times, 30 july 2019
Large financial companies have to thwart hundreds of thousands of cyberattacks every single day. Data thieves have to get lucky only once. Big banks like Capital One, the victim of a recent attack that captured the personal information of over 100 million people, are a target for digital troublemakers, like individual hackers trying to impress their peers or intelligence operatives for foreign governments. A single weak spot is all savvy hackers need. And they often find them.
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INTERNATIONAL CYBER AFFAIRS:
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GitHub confirms it has blocked developers in Iran, Syria and Crimea, TechCrunch.
Tags: Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace.
'Five Eyes' security alliance calls for access to encrypted material, Reuters.
Tags: GCSC Norm to Avoid Tampering.
Cisco to pay $8.6 million fine for selling government hackable surveillance technology, The Washington Post.
Tags: GCSC Norm to Reduce and Mitigate Significant Vulnerabilities.
DARPA to Bring its Smart Ballot Boxes to DEF CON for Hacking, DarkReading.
Tags: GCSC Call to Protect the Electoral Infrastructure.
Watchdog Uncovers Cyber Gaps at Radioactive Waste Facility, Nextgov.
Tags: GCSC Norm to Reduce and Mitigate Significant Vulnerabilities, GCSC Norm on Basic Cyber Hygiene as Foundational Defense.
American Tech Shudders as China Cyber Rules Are Expected to Get Tougher, The Wall Street Journal.
Tags: Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace.
Yet another hacking group is targeting oil and gas companies, Dragos says, CyberScoop.
Tags: GCSC Norm to Reduce and Mitigate Significant Vulnerabilities, GCSC Norm on Basic Cyber Hygiene as Foundational Defense.
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International Law and Cyber Activity: Why are a set of governing norms needed?, Lexology.
Tags: Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace.
Digital challenges @EuroDIG The Hague, Lindblom Den Haag.
Tags: GCSC Co-Chair Latha Reddy, GCSC Commissioner Jeff Moss, GCSC Commissioner Marietje Schaake, GCSC Commissioner Abdul-Hakeem Ajijola.
Intellectual Debt: With Great Power Comes Great Ignorance, Medium.
Tags: GCSC Commissioner Jonathan Zittrain.
Asia’s Great Huawei Debate, The Diplomat.
Tags: GCSC Commissioner Motohiro Tsuchiya.
The Age of Digital Geopolitics & Proxy War Between US and China, Inter Press Service.
Tags: GCSC Commmissioner Wolfgang Kleinwächter.
Russia Solidifies Grip on its Cyberspace, via the Sovereign Internet Law, International Policy Digest.
Tags: Special Advisor Vint Cerf.
To save the internet, Silicon Valley is sending it to space, Astronomy.
Tags: Special Advisor Vint Cerf.
More than 3 million customer records from Sephora reportedly being peddled on Dark Web, says cybersecurity firm, The Online Citizen.
Tags: GCSC Commissioner Ilya Sachkov.
'Five Eyes' alliance calls for backdoor access to WhatsApp and other encrypted communications, Computing.
Tags: GCSC Co-Chair Michael Chertoff.
7 must-see talks at Black Hat and DEF CON 2019, CSO.
Tags: Director of the GCSC Secretariat Alexander Klimburg.
Estonia debuts first-ever cyber diplomacy training, CyberScoop.
Tags: GCSC Commissioner Christopher Painter.
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23-27 June 2019: Cyber Week, Tel Aviv University.
2-4 July 2019: INTERPOL World 2019, INTERPOL.
16-18 July: RSAC 2019 Asia Pacific & Japan, RSA Conference.
3-8 August 2019: Black Hat USA, Black Hat.
8 August 2019: Cyber Games, Wicked6.
8-11 August 2019: DEF CON 27, DEF CON.
13 August 2019: Securing the Economic Potential of Cyberspace, CEDA.
13-14 August 2019: Cybersecurity Summit: New York City, ISMG.
4-5 September 2019: 14th BISA US Foreign Policy Working Group Annual Conference, BISA.
2-3 October 2019: CyberCrimeCon/19, Group-IB.
21-25 October 2019: Cyberweek, CyberScoop.
12-13 November 2019: Paris Peace Forum, PPF.
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