[ISN] SAS man to take charge of cyber-warfare defences

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/online/sas-man-to-take-charge-of-cyberwarfare-defences-2164842.html

By Kim Sengupta
independent.co.uk
20 December 20

A former chief of the SAS has been appointed to head the military's 
cyber-warfare operations amid rising concern about the risk of attacks 
on official websites endangering Britain's defences.

Major General Jonathan Shaw will lead a unit combating internet assaults 
on vital strategic installations, including nuclear facilities and 
communications networks, The Independent has learnt.

The Strategic Defence and Security Review identified cyber-warfare as 
"tier one" in a league table of threats facing the UK. Last week Sir 
Peter Ricketts, the National Security Advisor, asked government 
departments to take precautions over hackers promising revenge attacks 
over the WikiLeaks affair. The director of GCHQ, Iain Lobban, has stated 
that cyber warfare, some orchestrated by foreign governments, is one of 
the biggest challenges faced by the intelligence services.

But it is the WikiLeaks threats which have become the most pressing in 
the field, according to Whitehall sources. "Hacktivist" supporters of 
the website have hit companies that withdrew services from WikiLeaks 
such as Visa, Mastercard and PayPal. Some supporters of WikiLeaks blame 
the UK for what they see as complicity in a campaign against its 
founder, Julian Assange.

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