Britain is under attack! The biggest cyber attack we've ever seen, and it's bringing down telecommunications, banks and even the government itself.
Thankfully, it’s all only fictional – despite some people being taken in by a trailer – as we're talking about Channel 4’s newest prestige TV series: The Undeclared War, featuring Mark Rylance, Simon Pegg and Adrian Lester. In the Peter Kosminsky-created drama, a young intern, Saara (Hannah Khalique-Brown) trawls through a load of code and uncovers the attack designed to take out the UK, right before a general election. So far, so terrifying.
But how true to life is the series, and could this ever happen in reality? We asked Jake Moore, a global cyber-security advisor with 20 years in the game, how based in reality the show is, if we need to start panicking about a digital downfall, and why you definitely need to change your password if it’s still Password123.
What did you think about the War Of The Worlds-inspired trailer that had people in a bit of a panic last week?
I saw there was a bit of a backlash last week about the trailer but I’m a big fan of that as I work in simulation attacks on businesses. The public tend to forget about it, either think it won’t ever happen to them or don’t really understand, so the trailer was excellent to highlight it in that way.
What did you make of the show itself?
It worked brilliantly, I thought it was made very well. ..
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