TERRIFYING NUKE WARNING: Nuclear weapons could be HACKED in cyber attacks
BRITISH security was thrown into question yesterday after it was claimed that UK nuclear weapons can NEVER be entirely safe from being targeted in a cyber attack.
By LEVI WINCHESTER
Express.co.uk
Fri, Feb 5, 2016
There is evidence hackers have attempted to compromise radio communications used to send launch approval messages, according to the paper for think tank the European Leadership Network (ELN).
The admission came as an expert the organisation that it will never be possible to say UK nuclear weapons are protected from viscous hackers.
The think tank’s advisory board includes former Labour defence secretary Des Browne, former Conservative foreign and defence secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind, former Liberal Democrat leader Menzies Campbell and former Lib Dem leader in the Lords Shirley Williams.
Last year, Mr Browne warned UK nuclear weapons could “be rendered obsolete by hackers” and called for risk assessment.
In an article for the ELN, Dr Andrew Futter, senior lecturer in international politics at the University of Leicester, said: “By far the biggest fear and worst-case scenario is that hackers somehow compromise or sabotage the submarine or the weapons it carries.”
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