By Wayne Lee-
Hackers are a threat to world safety and individual privacy, and must be fought at all levels. A leaked memo from the National Cybersecurity Centre (NCSC) claiming to have identified links that suggested hackers infiltrated the UK energy sector is deeply troubling in our modern age of technology.
The memo claimed to have identified links “from multiple UK IP addresses to infrastructure associated with advanced state-sponsored hostile threat actors.” These threats are “known to target the energy and manufacturing sectors,” the document says.
If hackers can affect public sectors like the energy sector, then the scope of their capacity is broad enough to obtain our private details which can often include plans involving our whereabouts on given times and days.
The memo first obtained by Motherboard before being validated by independent sources claims that “a number of industrial control system engineering and services organisations are likely to have been compromised.” The NCSC has neither confirmed nor denied the authenticity of the memo.
Russia have long been on the front line of suspects for major hackings in the world, but not much in the way of evidence has been presented publicly to confirm this view. The Kremlin have always denied any association with hacking but many U.K and intelligent officials insist that Russia has in past times been behind major hacking. The hacking linked to the infltration of the energy sector has no confirmed culprit
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Russia have been accused of influencing the 2016 elections in favour of President Trump, and attempting to infiltrate America’s nuclear power industry via phishing emails. Despite there being no known consequences from the alleged hacking, the revelation is very disturbing. Hacking is an evil intrusion that can greatly compromise national security and individual safety and must be combatted at a global level