Canada unprepared for massive cyber-attack: Expert
Global governments are taking the threat of Internet-based cyber-attacks seriously. Governments in Russia, China and the United States have greatly altered their defence spending and organization in order to respond to growing cyber-threats from terrorist groups.
Canada.com, March 23, 2010
OTTAWA — Canada is woefully unprepared for a massive cyber-attack that is within reach of any run-of-the-mill hacker and could cripple the business of the nation, warns a leading security expert.
Edmonton's Dragos Ruiu, a computer security consultant and the main organizer of one of the world's leading cyber-security conferences in Vancouver, says it's time for the government to protect complex computer networks that can be hijacked with the simplest of tools and devastate government business communications.
"There has got be a lot more thought and a lot more talk and a lot more brains applied to the situation," said Ruiu. "The cyber-warfare world is the only place a 17-year-old kid can take on a nation state and win."