Taiwan’s Ministry of Digital Affairs will officially launch on Aug. 27, with information security and Web 3.0 technology as key focus areas to protect against Chinese cyberattacks amid escalating tensions between China and Taiwan.
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The new ministry will be in
charge of policies concerning information, telecommunications,
communications, information security and the internet when it comes into being
on Saturday.
Minister Without Portfolio Audrey
Tang, who has been tapped to head the new ministry, said in a recent
interview with local media Liberty Times that the
soon-to-be-launched ministry has adopted InterPlanetary File System (IPFS)
technology to boost its cybersecurity capabilities.
The information
war between China and Taiwan appears to have expanded to the
Web3 space, in which decentralized networks such as InterPlanetary
File System (IPFS) have offered a useful means of combating
distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
Tang said the ministry is working to build the
ministry’s website on the IPFS, which comes with an unusual URL —
“ipns://moda.gov.tw” — that feeds snapshots of the site to regular content
delivery networks using the HTTPS protocol.
Taiwan has long been targeted by
Beijing’s cyberattacks, especially following a visit
by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi earlier this month. Reuters reported,
citing Tang, that cyberattacks on Taiwan government units on the day of
Pelosi’s visit surpassed 15,000 gigabits, 23 times higher than the previous
daily record.
Source: forkast.news