Global Commission Meeting in The Hague, the Netherlands
This article was published on the GCSC website, 23 May 2019
The Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace held its third meeting of 2019 in The Hague, the Netherlands, on 16-17 June. The Commission meeting took place prior to EuroDIG, which was held at the World Forum in the Hague from 19-20 June 2019.
Tags: Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace.
More information will follow soon on the GCSC website.
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National Policy
Russia and Iran Plan to Fundamentally Isolate the Internet, WIRED.
Tags: GCSC Call to Protect the Public Core of the Internet.
Online piracy slows in Russia, Broadband TV News.
Tags: GCSC Commissioner Ilya Sachkov.
China’s PLA seeks to bring cyberwarfare units under one roof, South China Morning Post.
Tags: GCSC Commissioner James Andrew Lewis.
Kim Jong Un’s cyber army raises cash for North Korea, The Irish Times.
Tags: Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace.
Estonia Speaks Out on Key Rules for Cyberspace, Just Security.
Tags: Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace.
The GCHQ’s Vulnerabilities Equities Process, Lawfare.
Tags: GCSC Norm for States to Create a Vulnerability Equities Process.
Bolton Says U.S. Is Expanding Offensive Cyber Operations, The Wall Street Journal.
Tags: Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace, GCSC Call to Protect the Electoral Infrastructure.
House’s defense bill looks to protect Pentagon’s tech supply chain, CyberScoop.
Tags: GCSC Norm to Avoid Tampering.
State Department proposes new $20.8 million cybersecurity bureau, CyberScoop.
Tags: GCSC Commissioner Christopher Painter.
House Democrat places hold on State Department’s move to establish cyber bureau, The Hill.
Tags: GCSC Commissioner Christopher Painter.
Congress to take another stab at ‘hack back’ legislation, CyberScoop.
Tags: GCSC Norm Against Offensive Cyber Operations by Non-State Actors.
European Affairs
The EU’s Embassy In Russia Was Hacked But The EU Kept It A Secret, Buzzfeed News.
Tags: Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace.
Digital Brief: The power of online platforms, Euractiv.
Tags: GCSC Commissioner Marietje Schaake.
GLOBSEC Forum: ‘No reason to protest, people have a great life’, Babis says, Euractiv.
Tags: GCSC Co-Chair Michael Chertoff, GCSC Commissioner Marietje Schaake.
Global Governance
Cyber Governance: More Spam Than Substance?, Council on Foreign Relations.
Tags: Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace, GCSC Commissioner Samir Saran.
Panel Launches Report & Recommendations For Building an Inclusive Digital Future, UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation.
Tags: Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace, GCSC Commissioner Marina Kaljurand, GCSC Special Advisor Vint Cerf.
The UN Panel on Digital Cooperation: An Agenda for the 2020s, CircleID.
Tags: GCSC Commissioner Wolfgang Kleinwächter.
Threats and Risk Mitigation
Entering the Third Decade of Cyber Threats: Toward Greater Clarity in Cyberspace, Lawfare.
Tags: Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace.
Threat from technology should not be underestimated, security officials say, The National.
Tags: GCSC Co-Chair Michael Chertoff.
How Deception Technology Can Defend Networks and Disrupt Attackers, SecurityWeek.
Tags: Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace.
Cyber of the fittest: Researchers develop first cyber agility framework to measure attacks, Phys.org.
Tags: GCSC Norm to Reduce and Mitigate Significant Vulnerabilities.
Innovative Solutions to Enhance Cybersecurity, The Times of Israel.
Tags: GCSC Commissioner Isaac Ben-Israel.
The Economic Value of DNS Security, Global Cyber Alliance.
Tags: GCSC Call to Protect the Public Core of the Internet.
DNS hijacking grabs headlines, but it’s just the tip of the iceberg, CSO.
Tags: GCSC Call to Protect the Public Core of the Internet.
Digital risks for populations in armed conflict: Five key gaps the humanitarian sector should address, ICRC Humanitarian Law & Policy blog.
Tags: Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace.
Conflict in Cyberspace
Battlefield Internet, Foreign Affairs.
Tags: Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace.
Battle lines drawn in coming cyber war, DefenceWeb.
Tags: Director of the GCSC Secretariat Alexander Klimburg.
What is the Cyber Equivalent of Physical Displays of Military Strength, Gula Tech Adventures Blog.
Tags: Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace.
Know your enemy and know yourself: Attribution in the cyber domain, ICRC Humanitarian Law & Policy Blog.
Tags: Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace.
Public Attribution of Cyber Incidents, CSS ETH Zurich.
Tags: Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace.
Deterrence in Cyberspace, Project Syndicate.
Tags: Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace, GCSC Commissioner Joseph Nye.
U.S. Cyber Infiltration of the Russian Electric Grid: Implications for Deterrence, Lawfare.
Tags: Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace.
U.S. Cyber Command, Russia and Critical Infrastructure: What Norms and Laws Apply?, Just Security.
Tags: Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace.
What a U.S. Operation in Russia Shows About the Limits of Coercion in Cyber Space, War on the Rocks.
Tags: Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace.
How Not to Prevent a Cyberwar with Russia, WIRED.
Tags: Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace.
Iran says it dismantled a U.S. cyber espionage network, Reuters.
Tags: Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace.
Iranian Hackers Launch a New US-Targeted Campaign as Tensions Mount, WIRED.
Tags: Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace.
Industry and Civil Society Developments
Should private companies be drafted in the cyber war?, The Hill.
Tags: GCSC Norm on Basic Cyber Hygiene as Foundational Defense.
Electric Grid Security Unites Public and Private Sectors, Government Technology.
Tags: GCSC Co-Chair Michael Chertoff.
Waterbug: Espionage Group Rolls Out Brand-New Toolset in Attacks Against Governments, Symantec.
Tags: GCSC Norm to Avoid Tampering.
The Politician Fighting The Spyware Industry, Motherboard.
Tags: GCSC Commissioner Marietje Schaake.
Tech Giants Told To Up Their Game, As Faith In Institutions Erodes, Forbes.
Tags: GCSC Co-Chair Michael Chertoff.
Facebook announces Libra cryptocurrency: All you need to know, TechCrunch.
Tags: Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace.
Russian cyber titan Group-IB makes Singapore home, Channel Asia.
Tags: GCSC Commissioner Ilya Sachkov.
Breach Updates
Only one in 20 vulnerabilities are exploited in the wild, claim researchers, Computing.
Tags: GCSC Norm for States to Create a Vulnerability Equities Process, GCSC Norm to Reduce and Mitigate Significant Vulnerabilities.
Report: No ‘Eternal Blue’ Exploit Found in Baltimore City Ransomware, KrebsonSecurity.
Tags: GCSC Norm to Reduce and Mitigate Significant Vulnerabilities, GCSC Norm on Basic Cyber Hygiene as Foundational Defense.
Encroachment on encryption and statutory backdoors thwart IT security, ECO.
Tags: GCSC Commissioner Wolfgang Kleinwächter.
Google confirms that advanced backdoor came preinstalled on Android devices, ARS Technica.
Tags: GCSC Norm to Reduce and Mitigate Significant Vulnerabilities.
A bug in Wi-Fi ‘extenders’ could give a hacker full control over the devices, CyberScoop.
Tags: GCSC Norm Against Commandeering of ICT Devices into Botnets, GCSC Norm to Reduce and Mitigate Significant Vulnerabilities.
The Highly Dangerous ‘Triton’ Hackers Have Probed the US Grid, WIRED.
Tags: GCSC Norm on Basic Cyber Hygiene as Foundational Defense, GCSC Norm to Reduce and Mitigate Significant Vulnerabilities.
CORRECTED-UPDATE 2-Messaging service Telegram CEO points to China as likely origin of cyber attack, Reuters.
Tags: Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace.
It’s alive: Threat actors cobble together open-source pieces into monstrous Frankenstein campaign, Cisco Talos.
Tags: Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace.
DEF CON: From Failed Party and Movie Inspiration to Global Dominance, Exabeam.
Tags: GCSC Commissioner Jeff Moss.
A Florida city paid a $600,000 bitcoin ransom to hackers who took over its computers — and it’s a massive alarm bell for the rest of the US, Greenwich Time.
Tags: GCSC Commissioner James Andrew Lewis.
Quest Diagnostics says 11.9 million patients affected by data breach, TechCrunch.
Tags: GCSC Norm to Reduce and Mitigate Significant Vulnerabilities, GCSC Norm on Basic Cyber Hygiene as Foundational Defense.
Elections and Electoral Infrastructure
Democracy & Disconnect, GLOBSEC 2019.
Tags: GCSC Co-Chair Michael Chertoff.
Election Security is Still Hurting at Every Level, WIRED.
Tags: GCSC Call to Protect the Electoral Infrastructure.
Canada should regulate social media firms to protect election, says international group, Yahoo! News.
Tags: GCSC Co-Chair Michael Chertoff.
Voting machine giant lobbies for paper ballots over election security concerns, CNN.
Tags: GCSC Call to Protect the Electoral Infrastructure.
Top voting machine maker reverses position on election security, promises paper ballots, TechCrunch.
Tags: GCSC Call to Protect the Electoral Infrastructure.
Group sues for records on US election hacking vulnerability, The Washington Post.
Tags: GCSC Call to Protect the Electoral Infrastructure, GCSC Norm for States to Create a Vulnerability Equities Process.
Mitch McConnell is Making the 2020 Election Open Season for Hackers, The New Yorker.
Tags: GCSC Call to Protect the Electoral Infrastructure.
The Cybersecurity 202: FEC poised to limit who can give political campaigns free cybersecurity help, The Washington Post.
Tags: GCSC Commissioner Christopher Painter.
Human Rights
How Our Digital Spaces Came To Be Unequal and Unsafe For Women, The Swaddle.
Tags: GCSC Commissioner Samir Saran.
RightsCon 2019: UNESCO’s Internet Universality Indicators showcased as a tool for evidence-based policy making, Mirage News.
Tags: GCSC Commissioner Anriette Esterhuysen.
Ask the experts: Should the US have a data privacy law similar to GDPR?, Security Boulevard.
Tags: GCSC Co-Chair Michael Chertoff.
America Needs to Be More Like Europe and Regulate Information Technology, New America Panelists Agree, BroadBandBreakfast.
Tags: GCSC Co-Chair Michael Chertoff, GCSC Commissioner Marietje Schaake.
Former DHS Chief Sees U.S. Policy Swinging Toward GDPR, MeriTalk.
Tags: GCSC Co-Chair Michael Chertoff.
Events
3-5 June 2019: 3rd Global Conference of the Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network, I&J Policy Network.
4 June 2019: Data & Great Power Competition, New America.
6 June 2019: Cyber Stability Conference, United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research.
6 June 2019: Securing Our Cyber Future: Innovative Approaches to Digital Threats, Stanford Cyber Policy Center.
7-9 June 2019: CyFy Africa, ORF.
11-14 June 2019: RightsCon Tunis 2019, Access Now.
16-17 June 2019: Global Commission Meeting in The Hague, GCSC.
16-21 June 2019: Consolidated Programme 2019, EuroDIG.
16-21 June 2019: 31st Annual FIRST Conference, FIRST.Org.
17-18 June 2019: Offzone, BI.ZONE.
19 June 2019: Cyber Polygon, Sberbank and BI.ZONE.
19 June 2019: Tech Talk Series: How DevOps and Automation Can Accelerate Warfighting Readiness, DreamPort.
20-21 June 2019: Cyber 2019, Chatham House.
20-21 June 2019: The International Cybersecurity Congress, Sberbank.
23-27 June 2019: Cyber Week, Tel Aviv University.
3-8 August 2019: Black Hat USA, Black Hat.
8 August 2019: Cyber Games, Wicked6.
8-11 August 2019: DEF CON 27, DEF CON.
2-3 October 2019: CyberCrimeCon/19, Group-IB.
21-25 October 2019: Cyberweek, CyberScoop.
