Analysts call for increase in online defenses after cyber attack on House of Commons

Security specialists are calling for the Canadian government to beef up online defense. This comes after a cyber attack on federal departments as well as the House of Commons.

A Treasury spokesman says no information was compromised. The attack did leave employees without Internet access.

The Communications Security Establishment is Canada’s secret cyber spy agency. It traced the attacks to the Chinese embassy in Ottawa and to computer servers in Beijing.

A security specialist says Canada is facing an ‘A-Team’ of government backed Chinese hackers. Canada spends less than 1% of what the US does on online security.