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GCSC Cyberstability Update, 26 July 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 was published by Tech Accord, 25 July 2019
Today, the Cybersecurity Tech Accord welcomes four new companies to its ranks, bringing the total number of signatories to 111 companies committed to improving the security of cyberspace. Archive360, Exeltek Consulting Group, Indra Minsait, and Professional Options, all join in the pledge to protect users and customers everywhere. This expansion further deepens the group’s worldwide reach, highlighting the global nature of the challenges we face. Over the past year, the Cybersecurity Tech Accord signatories have come together to support numerous initiatives that seek to increase the security of the online ecosystem, in addition to investing in discreet workstreams. From the onset there has been one issue that we have vocally supported – the need for governments and industry to adopt vulnerability disclosure policies. Today we are proud to announce that all 111 signatories have committed to adopt vulnerability disclosure policies by the end of the year, and more than half already have such policies in place.
Tags: GCSC Norm for States to Create a Vulnerability Equities Process.
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This article by David E. Sanger and Catie Edmondson was published in The New York Times, 25 July 2019
The Senate Intelligence Committee concluded Thursday that election systems in all 50 states were targeted by Russia in 2016, an effort more far-reaching than previously acknowledged and one largely undetected by the states and federal officials at the time. The committee described “an unprecedented level of activity against state election infrastructure” intended largely to search for vulnerabilities in the security of the election systems. t concluded that while there was no evidence that any votes were changed in actual voting machines, “Russian cyberactors were in a position to delete or change voter data” in the Illinois voter database. The committee found no evidence that they did so.
Tags: GCSC Call to Protect the Electoral Infrastructure.
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This article by Zak Doffman was published in Forbes, 21 July 2019
Cyber warfare has reached a new phase this year—at least in terms of public awareness of the nature of the threat. Nothing is especially new, in truth, at least not capability-wise. But there has been one major development: increased levels of integration between the physical and cyber domains—cyber warfare as an interchangeable battlefield tool, an attack in one domain and retaliation in another. And the catalyst has been the Middle East, the continuing escalation of tensions between the U.S. (and its allies) and Iran. And the small matter of China and Russia—the world's leading cyber and hybrid warfare protagonists—lurking menacingly on the sidelines.
Tags: Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace.
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INTERNATIONAL CYBER AFFAIRS:
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NSA Forms Cybersecurity Directorate Under More Assertive U.S. Effort, The Wall Street Journal.
Tags: Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace.
IGF Best Practice Forum on Cybersecurity – Call for Contributions, Internet Governance Forum.
Tags: Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace.
Own The Router, Own The Traffic, SecureWorks.
Tags: GCSC Norm to Reduce and Mitigate Significant Vulnerabilities, GCSC Norm on Basic Cyber Hygiene as Foundational Defense.
Should Companies Bolster Their Cybersecurity by ‘Hacking Back?’, Fortune.
Tags: GCSC Norm Against Offensive Cyber Operations by Non-State Actors.
Should Cyber Arms Be Treated Like Bioweapons?, Defense One.
Tags: Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace.
US company selling weaponized BlueKeep exploit, ZDNet.
Tags: Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace.
Iranian cyber activity "spiked" after U.S. withdrawal from nuclear deal, says Microsoft official, CBS News.
Tags: Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace.
What happened at the military’s biggest cyber training exercise to date, Fifth Domain.
Tags: Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace.
How China’s formidable cyber capabilities sparked a tech cold war, Financial Times.
Tags: Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace.
Leaked documents reveal Huawei’s secret operations to build North Korea’s wireless network, The Washington Post.
Tags: Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace.
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What can we learn from Estonia’s cyber revolution?, The University of Auckland.
Tags: GCSC Commissioner Marina Kaljurand.
Self-defense in cyberspace would put businesses at risk, experts say, MarketWatch.
Tags: GCSC Commissioner James Andrew Lewis.
Prominent Europeans call for change in approach to EU foreign policy, The Sofia Globe.
Tags: GCSC Commissioner Marietje Schaake, GCSC Special Representative Carl Bildt.
Painter, ex-State Dept. cyber chief, praises Senate 5G bill in call for including allies on network security, Inside Cybersecurity.
Tags: GCSC Commissioner Christopher Painter.
Diversification Is Key To Fighting Huawei Dominance, Android Headlines.
Tags: GCSC Co-Chair Michael Chertoff.
It's security, stupid - why it's time to see the wood from the trees in the FTC's case against Qualcomm, IAM.
Tags: GCSC Commissioner James Andrew Lewis.
The impact of AI in international relations, The Daily Star.
Tags: GCSC Commissioner Joseph Nye.
Facebook transparency effort fails to stop shady political ads, POLITICO.
Tags: GCSC Commissioner Marietje Schaake.
Global Cyber Alliance Announces Nastashia (Sasha) Press to its Board of Directors, Global Cyber Alliance.
Tags: GCSC Commissioner Scott Charney.
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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.
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