MPs who are leaving the protection of parliament for the campaign trail will render the election significantly more vulnerable to hacking, leading security researchers have warned.According to Dr Udo Helmbrecht, executive director of the European Unions Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA), hackers have their best opportunity to intervene in democracies in the weeks running up to the election because parliaments information security services are no longer overseeing their accounts. If hackers want to disrupt a democracy, elections are the time to do it, he said.
As MPs head out on the campaign trail after Wednesdays dissolution of parliament, they are no longer granted the special status of MPs and hence lose the protection of Westminsters IT security infrastructure. This gives attackers increased opportunities to obtain data and gain access to sensitive networks.
Källa: MPs vulnerable to cyberattacks after dissolution of parliament report | Technology | The Guardian
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