UN: Threat of a hacking attack on nuclear plants is growing
Source: Washington Post
December 15 at 7:49 PM
UNITED NATIONS The nightmare scenario is rising for a hacking attack on a nuclear power plants computer system that causes the uncontrolled release of radiation, the United Nations deputy chief warned Thursday.
Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson told a Security Council meeting that extremists and vicious non-state groups are actively seeking weapons of mass destruction and these weapons are increasingly accessible.
Non-state actors can already create mass disruption using cyber technologies and hacking a nuclear plant would be a nightmare scenario, he said.
The open council meeting focused on ways to stop the proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons by extremist groups and criminals. Members unanimously approved a resolution to strengthen the work of the council committee monitoring what countries are doing to prevent non-state actors from acquiring or using weapons of mass destruction, known as WMDs.
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Crash2Parties
(6,017 posts)The terrorists we fund or the ones we don't.
*We won't know for decades, but the connections are interesting.
DK504
(3,847 posts)tRump's swearing in will just ignore all the briefings and screaming, yelling and hair pulling from those that know what trouble we are in will be ignored?
All the Wall Street criminals and Oil puppets get caught with another act of war on their hands will what? Try to make money off the disaster?