Security Experts Warn Smart Cities Are Vulnerable to Cyberattacks May 7, 2021 11:01 GMT
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Smart Cities
Connected areas, also known as smart cities, use interconnected devices and sensors to increase service quality, such as configuring traffic lights to reduce congestion.
The benefits of smart cities and linked rural environments are various. However, even if cities are getting “smart,” security aspects should not be ignored, as it would create more problems. Sensitive data must be protected against large-scale theft.
The NCSC, a division of GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters), has issued guidelines to local governments on how to secure connected places. They warn that critical public services must be protected against disruption.
A Covert Agenda, I made mention of a small (but nonetheless intriguing) body of evidence pertaining to the collation and investigation of UFO data on the part of the sprawling Government Communications Headquarters at Cheltenham (GCHQ), England. As Military.Wikia note: “The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is a British intelligence agency responsible for providing signals intelligence (SIGINT) and information assurance to the British government and armed forces. Based in Cheltenham, it operates under the guidance of the Joint Intelligence Committee. GCHQ was originally established after the First World War as the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS or GCCS) and it was known under that name until 1946. During the Second World War it was located at Bletchley Park. GCHQ is the responsibility of the UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, but it is not a part of the Foreign Office and its Director ranks as a Permanent Secretary. In 2013, GCHQ recei
Smart Cities Likely to Be Targeted by Malicious Actors, Cyber Expert Warns
Emerging smart cities will likely become attractive targets for malicious actors, an expert at the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC ) warned on Friday.
The warning came as NCSC published its first guidance for the development of smart cities in the UK.
In a blog post introducing the guidance, Ian Levy, the NCSC’s technical director, said that an “Italian Job” would be “catastrophic” in the 21st century when computers “control more aspects of our physical lives than ever before.”
Levy was referring to the 1969 heist film “The Italian Job,” in which magnetic storage tapes for the Turin traffic control were switched to create a gridlock as a part of the escape plan.