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A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, May 2021.
UK Smarties Cities Cybersecurity Warning
The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) published its Smart Cities (connected places) guidance for UK local authorities. NCSC warned UK Smart Cities will be highly targeted by hackers, and as such, councils need to ensure they are properly prepared as they rollout increasingly connected and technology-reliant infrastructure. The NCSC said critical public services must be protected from disruption, while sensitive data also needs to be secured from being stolen in large volumes. Smart cities and connected rural environments promise a host of benefits for UK society, for instance, sensors will monitor pollution, real-time information on parking spaces, while cameras will track congestion and smartly manage traffic flow. However, another concern is the large volumes of personal information that will likely be collected by smart cities technology, which could erode privacy by allowing citizens to be tracked in greater detail than ever, or could be stolen by criminals or hostile states.
The NCSC’s technical director, Dr Ian Levy, referred to Hollywood depictions of cyber-attacks on critical city infrastructure. He picked out the 1969 classic movie ‘The Italian Job‘, where a computer professor switches magnetic storage tapes running traffic in the Italian city of Turin, which causes utter gridlock, e
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