{"id":6245,"date":"2022-07-07T16:36:28","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T14:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/07\/some-staff-work-behind-armoured-glass-a-cybersecurity-expert-on-the-undeclared-war\/"},"modified":"2022-07-07T16:36:28","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T14:36:28","slug":"some-staff-work-behind-armoured-glass-a-cybersecurity-expert-on-the-undeclared-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/07\/some-staff-work-behind-armoured-glass-a-cybersecurity-expert-on-the-undeclared-war\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Some staff work behind armoured glass\u2019: a cybersecurity expert on The Undeclared War"},"content":{"rendered":"

How realistic is Peter Kosminsky\u2019s Channel 4 drama about an IT attack on the UK? Very, according to one of the UK\u2019s top digital intelligence experts<\/p>\n

When I heard there was going to be a TV drama about cybersecurity<\/a>, my initial reaction was that it was a brave thing to attempt. Trying to make what we do televisual is notoriously difficult. There is very little to see \u2013 just people tapping at keyboards and staring at screens, with most of the action going on inside their heads. So I have been pleasantly surprised by Peter Kosminsky\u2019s Channel 4 series The Undeclared War<\/a> (whose second episode airs tonight<\/a>). I binge-watched the entire thing in a weekend.<\/p>\n

The cyber-attack on the UK in episode one was all too credible. I initially thought they were going to be vague and melodramatic \u2013 \u201cThe internet\u2019s gone down!\u201d \u2013 but the script went on to explain how the BT infrastructure, which does run a huge chunk of web traffic in the UK, had been taken offline. They specified how 55% of web access had been lost and it was cleverly timed to be a disruptive attack, rather than a disastrous one with planes falling out of the sky. You can cause a lot of chaos by taking out any of these \u201cTier 1 networks\u201d. We\u2019ve seen it happen by accident \u2013 last October, Facebook managed to wipe itself<\/a> by mistake \u2013 so it\u2019s perfectly plausible an attacker could do the same.<\/p>\n

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\nHow realistic is Peter Kosminsky\u2019s Channel 4 drama about an IT attack on the UK? Very, according to one of the UK\u2019s top digital intelligence experts
\nWhen I heard there was going to be a TV drama about cybersecurity, my initial reaction was that it was a brave thing to attempt. Trying to make what we do televisual is notoriously difficult. There is very little to see \u2013 just people tapping at keyboards and staring at screens, with most of the action going on inside their heads. So I have been pleasantly surprised by Peter Kosminsky\u2019s Channel 4 series The Undeclared War (whose second episode airs tonight). I binge-watched the entire thing in a weekend.
\nThe cyber-attack on the UK in episode one was all too credible. I initially thought they were going to be vague and melodramatic \u2013 \u201cThe internet\u2019s gone down!\u201d \u2013 but the script went on to explain how the BT infrastructure, which does run a huge chunk of web traffic in the UK, had been taken offline. They specified how 55% of web access had been lost and it was cleverly timed to be a disruptive attack, rather than a disastrous one with planes falling out of the sky. You can cause a lot of chaos by taking out any of these \u201cTier 1 networks\u201d. We\u2019ve seen it happen by accident \u2013 last October, Facebook managed to wipe itself by mistake \u2013 so it\u2019s perfectly plausible an attacker could do the same. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How realistic is Peter Kosminsky\u2019s Channel 4 drama about an IT attack on the UK? Very, according to one of the UK\u2019s top digital intelligence experts When I heard there was going to be a TV drama about cybersecurity, my initial reaction was that it was a brave thing to attempt. Trying to make what …<\/p>\n

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