CYBERSECURITY WARNING:

There must be an effort ‘from boardrooms to living rooms’ to make cybersecurity ‘10 times more urgent,’ an intelligence official said

AP, LONDON

Britain and its allies risk losing a conflict in cyberspace against adversaries such as Russia unless citizens, corporations and governments treat cybersecurity with much greater urgency, a British spy chief said yesterday.Anne Keast-Butler, director of the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), warned that Moscow is “relentlessly targeting critical infrastructure, democratic processes, supply chains and public trust” in Britain and Europe.She accused Russia of stealing technology, and plotting sabotage and assassination attempts, a prereleased speech that she was to deliver at a World War II code breaking center near London showed.

Officials stand outside Bletchley Park near Milton Keynes, Britain, on Nov. 1, 2023.