38CANADA’S CYBER SECURITY IN A GLOBALIZED ENVIRONMENT
Introduction
A couple of events dominate 24-hour news cycles nowadays. Among them, an alleged Russian hacking into the 2017 Democratic National Convention (DNC), UK-based Cambridge Analytica’s data manipulation of 80 million Facebook users, a Russian global hacking effort to gain access to the UK and the US infrastructure as well as home Wi-Fi users, and last but not least, the use of social media platforms to wage “troll wars.”1 Although Facebook data manipulation or trolling might not fit into typical cyberattack profiles, these instances drew wider attention because they were carried out with malicious intent. Obviously, these nefarious cyber ...
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