Russian Government Calls for FSB to Tackle Cyber Crime

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://en.ria.ru/russia/20131017/184204651/Russian-Government-Calls-for-FSB-to-Tackle-Cyber-Crime.html

RIA Novosti
17/10/2013

MOSCOW – The Russian government has submitted amendments to state 
lawmakers that would give the country’s Federal Security Service (FSB) the 
authority to investigate and fight hacker attacks.

If approved, the FSB would be able to carry out special operations to 
search for “information about events or actions (inaction), constituting 
threats to the information security” of Russia, adding information 
security to the list of state, military, economic and ecological security 
for which the FSB is already responsible.

The bill’s authors claim that interstate information warfare is 
intensifying, citing the distribution of malware that can be used as an 
information weapon.

They said that governments, banks, schools and media outlets are also 
targeted for cybercrimes and possible “terrorist” activity.

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