MOSCOW. April 26 (Interfax) - Cyber attacks endanger the sovereignty of independent states, and a system of defense against those attacks should be global rather than bloc-based, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said.
"Acts of information aggression perpetrated by certain states pose a particular threat to international security," Patrushev said at the 6th Moscow Conference on International Security held under the aegis of the Russian Defense Ministry.
"Tampering with facts and data falsification have become the hallmark of those who dare encroach on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of independent states on the basis of falsified information," Patrushev said.
"The same forces are trying to secure their unilateral advantage in controlling the global information infrastructure at any cost and are resisting the effort to create an international information security system under the UN aegis, with due account of national interests of all countries," he said.