{"id":223036,"date":"2016-02-09T15:56:55","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T15:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=223036"},"modified":"2016-02-09T16:02:53","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T16:02:53","slug":"uk-nukes-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/uk-nukes-hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;UK nukes could be hacked&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A newly-published report has cast serious doubts about the security of the UK\u2019s nuclear weapons.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A study for think tank the European Leadership Network (ELN) suggests that Britain\u2019s nuclear weapons can never be fully protected against a cyber attack.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, there is evidence hackers have sought to compromise radio communications used to send launch approval messages, in an attempt to attack the nuclear submarines.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;By far the biggest fear and worst-case scenario is that hackers somehow compromise or sabotage the submarine or the weapons it carries,\u201d Andrew Futter, senior lecturer in international politics at the University of Leicester wrote in an article for the ELN.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;UK submarines receive regular radio transmissions from ashore that could theoretically be attacked, such as weather updates needed for targeting and the regular FamilyGram\u2026This will almost certainly involve malware introduced during the procurement phase while the submarine\/missiles\/warheads are being built, or when the submarine is in port for maintenance, refurbishment and software updates,\u201d Dr Futter added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/02\/06\/449001\/UK-SUBMARINE-NUCLEAR\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly-published report has cast serious doubts about the security of the UK\u2019s nuclear weapons. A study for think tank the European Leadership Network (ELN) suggests that Britain\u2019s nuclear weapons can never be fully protected against a cyber attack. According to the report, there is evidence hackers have sought to compromise radio communications used to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-223036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}