{"id":380207,"date":"2018-10-08T23:50:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T22:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-the-uk-is-practicing-cyberattacks-that-could-black-out-moscow\/"},"modified":"2018-10-08T23:50:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T22:50:20","slug":"prison-planet-com-the-uk-is-practicing-cyberattacks-that-could-black-out-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-the-uk-is-practicing-cyberattacks-that-could-black-out-moscow\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb The UK is practicing cyberattacks that could black out Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1416362\/the-uk-war-games-cyberattacks-that-could-black-out-moscow\/\"><strong>Quartz<\/strong><\/a><br \/>October 8, 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"_92842 quartz\"><strong>British defense officials say they have practiced cyber war games that could shut off electricity in Russia\u2019s capital, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/edition\/news\/uk-war-games-cyber-attack-on-moscow-dgxz8ppv0?_ga=2.58052266.1684028993.1538922478-959467586.1538672718\">Sunday Times<\/a>\u00a0(paywall) reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"_92842 quartz\">The measures are part of a wider range of strategies to hit back at an increasingly assertive Russia\u2014accused of interfering with US elections, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/oct\/04\/netherlands-halted-russian-cyber-attack-on-chemical-weapons-body\">cyberattacks on Western targets<\/a>, and poisoning a former spy on UK soil\u2014without resorting to a full-blown nuclear attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_92842 quartz\">\u201cIf they sank our aircraft carrier with a nuclear-tipped torpedo, what is our response? There\u2019s nothing between sinking their submarine and dropping a nuclear weapon on northern Kamchatka,\u201d one senior source told the Sunday Times. \u201cThis is why cyber is so important; you can go on the offensive and turn off the lights in Moscow to tell them that they are not doing the right things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"_92842 quartz\">Military planners are looking for options if Russian president Vladimir Putin tests NATO\u2019s resolve by\u00a0seizing small islands belonging to Estonia, taking control of Libya\u2019s oil reserves, or using\u00a0\u201dirregular forces\u201d to attack troops, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1416362\/the-uk-war-games-cyberattacks-that-could-black-out-moscow\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Monday, October 8, 2018  at  7:14 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/the-uk-is-practicing-cyberattacks-that-could-black-out-moscow.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p><!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n -->    <\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/the-uk-is-practicing-cyberattacks-that-could-black-out-moscow.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QuartzOctober 8, 2018 British defense officials say they have practiced cyber war games that could shut off electricity in Russia\u2019s capital, the Sunday Times\u00a0(paywall) reports. The measures are part of a wider range of strategies to hit back at an increasingly assertive Russia\u2014accused of interfering with US elections, cyberattacks on Western targets, and poisoning a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-380207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380207","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=380207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}