So everyone remembers the controversy over this past presidential elections. The biggest headliner during, post, and into Trump’s presidency has been focused on Russia. Russia played a key role in hacking the overall elections. Now, Australia is now publicly blaming Russia over malicious cyber-attacks they have been receiving over the course of the year, backing the United States and the UK. Australia is publicly blaming Russia for stealing intellectual property and installing means to attempt future cyber attacks on critical infrastructure. Uncovered in an investigation, in August 2017 Russia was a state-sponsor in multiple attacks on Cisco routers that house technology called “Smart Install”. Hackers were able to infiltrate and target the vulnerability and impact government offices, companies, and infrastructure that had these routers in use.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/17/australia-joins-us-and-uk-in-blaming-russia-for-cyber-attacks
Russia’s cyber-mingling makes me feel rather uneasy. Honestly, I’m not exactly sure what there is to do about this issue. Are there any laws put in place globally that would be able to dictate Russia’s actions; is anything their doing actually illegal or is it just unethical? I think this is definitely an opportunity for our web-based society to take a step and update itself to impose laws to prevent such events and intrusions from happening again, as obviously they are effecting many lives.