Former President Mario Abdo Benítez, signed in the last days of his term, a decree in which he asked the Secretary of National Intelligence and the Mitic, to mobilize their resources to face an alleged computer attack that would affect State institutions. That document was not shared with the transition team, and consequently, the officials of the new government who should have been alerted were not transferred.
“Such threats, by their nature, will require the assistance of the National Intelligence Secretariat and the Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies,” says a part of the recital of the presidential document.
“Those types of threats are always latent, but we did not know the existence of that decree”Gustavo Villate, the new head of the Ministry of Technology, Information and Communication, responded to 1080 AM when he was approached on the subject.
The omission of the notice about the apparent danger existing around official archives of entities (both public data and those classified as confidential and/or secret) was more than striking.
Rear Admiral Cíbar Benítez, of the National Defense Councilexpressed that cybercrime is installed as a priority issue in the field of national security, therefore, its approach is of vital importance.
“This issue of cyberattack is something that has to be taken into account in terms of security. The function of the permanent secretary is that of a coordinating entity of the efforts of each one of the agencies”said Granada.
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“The communication in question, because it implies potential risks for public institutions, deserves the immediate determination of preliminary preventive actions, which allow, where appropriate, to deal with the threats,” Review another part of the decree signed by the former president.
And from that the question arises: Why, when there was a virtual and serious danger, was the new government not informed?
The information came to light in an interview in which the commander of the National Police, Gilberto Fleitas, occasionally brought to light the existence of an alert about a possible cyberattack on State entities.
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One of the questions (of the many) that runs around the issue is whether the silence of the previous government would not be the admission of “self-sabotage.” This presumption has a possible basis, in the manipulation of information (including false, hypothetical, biased) from state entities, to which the outgoing government put its hands, to attack political adversaries.
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