One Cyber Attack In The Near Future: UK Security Head Warns
A Director of the United Kingom’s National Cybersecurity Centre warned that a category one cyber attack the most severe variety of attack possible is likely to happen within the next few years, the Guardian reported.
The siren for the potentially devastating attack was sounded by Ian Levy, the technical director of cyber focused branch of the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) while speaking this week at an event hosted by cybersecurity firm Symantec.
Sometime in the next few years we’re going to have our first category one cyber incident, Levy said, noting that such an event would require a national or international governmental response in order to deal with the fallout and response to the attack.
Such an attack has not yet been seen. The National Cyberse...