Nato help needed to fight cyber war

By Duncan Gardham, Security Correspondent 300PM GMT seventeen March 2010

The inform highlights the dangers of attacks on the internet, promissory note and mobile phone networks by the Russians in Estonia 3 years ago in plea for the removal of a statue of a Soviet soldier.

The attacks crippled money machines, emails, websites and write networks forcing the supervision to promulgate by air wave at one stage.

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Security sources have told The Dailythat they are endangered the same thing could occur in Britain and ran an practice at the finish of last year called Exercise White Noise to copy what would occur if the mobile and landline networks opposite the nation were brought down by an attack.

The House of Lords cabinet on the European Union says that Britain is "reasonably well placed to cope with such disruptions" but says that most of the rest of the EU is lagging behind.

Lord Jopling, authority of the sub-committee on home affairs, that constructed the report, pronounced "The EU and Nato have identical interests in counterclaim opposite cyber-attacks and work in identical ways, nonetheless there is probably no information exchnage in between them."

The report, published on Thursday, criticises the place of the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) in Haraklion in Crete, indicating out that it takes 7 to ten hours usually to get to Brussels and staff have outlayed 85 nights on stopovers in Athens in the last year alone.

The city does not have a European propagandize and the centre is struggling to capture well-qualified staff.

The inform says "From the justification we have perceived we are assured that the preference to site ENISA at Heraklion was not taken on the basement of a clever cost/benefit analysis, and that it has led and continues to lead to problems over the recruitment and influence of staff, and over the scheduling of meetings.

"We urge the Government to safeguard that, when the subject of place of EU agencies arises in the future, the part of state in that the group is to be located should take in to comment the views of alternative part of states on the preference of site inside of that country, and that all such decisions should be taken usually on the basement of a severe cost/benefit analysis."