MOSCOW. Jan 16 (Interfax-AVN) - Russia has recorded a significant increase in attempts by outside forces to damage Russian information systems, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said.
"These are instances of hacking, and the unsanctioned gathering of personal data. Global operators and providers are being used broadly and the methods applied are constantly evolving," Patrushev said in an interview with the Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper.
The administration of U.S. president Barack Obama "has been making hollow accusations about Russian hacker attacks, deliberately ignoring the fact that the main servers are based on U.S. territory and are being used by Washington for intelligence and other purposes in order to retain its global dominance," Patrushev said.
On the international stage Russia's strategic goal is to form a system that would be based on the generally recognized rules of a country's responsible conduct in the information space, he said.
This work is already being consistently carried out by the UN Group of Governmental Experts, he said. An illustrative example of the need for this course is the Russian-proposed resolution approved by the General Assembly, entitled "Developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security."
The document was co-authored by Germany, Belgium, Finland, Spain, Portugal, Holland, Switzerland, South Korea and Turkey among others, about 80 nations in all, the Security Council secretary said.
On the national level the process continues of improving measures to counter threats in the information space, Patrushev said.
An important step was the approval in 2016 of the Principles of the state policy in this area, and of the Information Security Doctrine, he said.