Cyber-attack threat to nuclear facilities underestimated by UK – report

Tuesday, May 31, 2016
By Paul Martin

RT.com
31 May, 2016

British authorities underestimate the risk posed by malicious cyber-attacks, data breaches and spy drones to Britain’s nuclear plants and radioactive cargo, new expert analysis suggests.
Hard-hitting research, published by the Nuclear Free Local Authorities (NFLA) on Sunday, outlined a number of key concerns relating to UK national security.

Key risks flagged by its authors include inside attacks on nuclear sites, the loss or theft of sensitive data relating to nuclear facilities, cyber-attacks on nuclear facilities, malicious targeting of nuclear material in transit and the use of drones for adversarial means.

The analysis was developed by ex-director of the European Proliferation Information Center in London Dr. David Lowry, senior research fellow with the Institute for Resource and Security Studies in Cambridge, USA, together with the NFLA. It was dispatched to government officials, local authorities, nuclear regulatory agencies, British emergency services and the broader nuclear sector for review.

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