ritain will be wide-open to state-sponsored hacking of its critical infrastructure – including its energy supply – for the next decade because of a shortage of 50,000 cyber-security specialists, a top Nato adviser has warned. Prof Paul Theron, a member of Nato’s cyber-security research group and an advisor to the European Commission, said Britain urgently needed to bolster its defences against what he called a now “constant” barrage of sophisticated attacks from state-sponsored and criminal organisations against power stations, electricity networks and other essential systems.
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How Russian hackers almost shut down UK’s National Grid on election day. On June 8, 2017, as millions of Britons headed for the polling stations to vote in the General Election, a series of innocuous emails arrived in the inboxes of people working in the UK energy industry. The emails appeared legitimate, according to people with knowledge of the incident and documents released by UK and US intelligence agencies. Some were job applications with CVs. Others were administrative documents including contracts and legal agreements. They raised no alarm bells, as they were cleverly designed to resemble messages that staff at power stations and operating electricity distribution networks expected to receive. But they weren’t as innocent as they appeared.
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