Britain’s security services cannot offer “absolute protection” against Russian hackers, a top spy has warned. GCHQ cyber defence chief Ciaran Martin warned that it is a matter of “when not if” the UK suffers a “serious cyber attack”. He claimed spooks are now battling to stop attacks that “most impact on our way of life” instead of trying to prevent every breach. Mr Martin – who heads the National Cyber Security Centre – told the Daily Telegraph that “services can be disrupted” by Putin’s crack hacking squads. He wrote: “Turning off the lights and the power supply by cyber attack is harder than Hollywood films sometimes make out,” he writes.
ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Sun
