UK should be ‘psychologically resilient’ about cyber attack risk

Assembled vehicles at Bokov Airfield near Mazyr, Belarus

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Britain should not play into the Kremlin’s hands by being scared of the threat of a Russian cyber attack, a defence think tank said today despite a warning from spies about an enhanced risk because of the Ukraine crisis.

Jamie MacColl, a cyber security expert from the Royal United Services Institute in London, said the public should be “psychologically resilient about the prospect of cyber attacks” because Britain “is one of the most cyber capable nations in the world”.