NEWSWATCH: “Russia Updates Plan to Counter Cyberattacks and Foreign Influence” – New York Times
The Kremlin published a new plan … against what it described as stepped-up cyberattacks and ‘information-psychological’ methods by foreign intelligence agencies …. updat[ing] a similar information security doctrine put in place by … Putin in 2000. … American officials have mulled retaliating against Russia for … hacking before the presidential election …. The 16-page document sketches out … threats … and sets priorities for countering them. It identifies terrorist recruiting and financial crime as [among the] dangers. * * * … Russia has advocated, without much success so far, replacing the nonprofit group that now controls top-level domains with a global agency …. Under a separate law … [large] news aggregators … would bear responsibility as publishers, including a requirement to verify the truthfulness of … articles …. The law would apply to Google, among other aggregators. ….