Canada cyber-spy agency expects hacktivist attacks in 2019 vote | Reuters
Canada’s electronic spy agency said on Friday it was “very likely” that hackers will try to influence Canada’s 2019 elections and it planned to advise political parties next week on how to guard against cyber threats.The Communications Security Establishment (CSE) agency said it had not detected any nation-state attempts to interfere in prior Canadian elections but saw risk from hacktivists.CSE said Canada’s 2015 federal election, whoch brought Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals to power, was targeted by “low-sophistication cyber threat activity” that did not affect the outcome of the election, according to a report it released on Friday.”CSE will be offering cyber advice and guidance to parliamentarians and to Canada’s political parties,” CSE chief Greta Bossenmaier told a news conference. “Cyber security is a team imperative; no one organization can go it alone,” she added.Worries about interference in democratic processes have come to the fore amid allegations of Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential election last November and the French election in May.
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