The cyber arms race
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2019
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Was the NotPetya attack, that struck Ukraine and then the world in 2016, a portend of potentially devastating cyber-wars in the future?
Ed Butler goes back to ground zero of that sophisticated cyber attack to speak to Oleh Derevianko of the Ukrainian cybersecurity firm ISSP, and Valentyn Petrov who heads Ukraine's information security service. How did a piece of malware allegedly designed by Russia to devastate the Ukrainian economy go on to infect the computers of multinational corporations such as shipping firm Maersk and pharmaceutical Merck?
Are such state sponsored attacks becoming more commonplace? And why has Russia - widely accused of being one of the worst perpetrators of such attacks - just passed new legislation to defend itself from a cyber attack in the future? We hear from Bryan Sartin, head of global security at US telecoms conglomerate Verizon, and Emily Taylor of the international relations think tank Chatham House.
(Picture: Malicious computer programming code in the shape of a skull; Credit: solarseven/Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Kevin Fong, and the music you're listening to is by Hans Zimmer, |
| 0:08.2 | who's composed the theme for our new podcast, 13 Minutes to the Moon, which is available now. |
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| 0:22.7 | from the BBC World Service, and I'll be back a little later to tell you more about it. |
| 0:32.1 | Hello there, I'm Ed Butler. Welcome to Business Daily from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:42.7 | Coming up, the devastating impact of the world's worst ever cyber attack. |
| 0:51.6 | Around 22 bags that were here at six major energy companies, hospitals, government of institutions, retail, gas stations. |
| 0:54.5 | Not Petia struck Ukraine two years ago. |
| 0:55.8 | It spread worldwide. |
| 1:01.6 | Was it a deliberate attempt by one nation to see what malware can really do to the global economy? What generally is happening is a stepping up of a militarisation of cyberspace. |
| 1:09.6 | And states are now viewing cyberspace as a critical strategic risk. |
| 1:15.7 | Not Petcher explained Business Daily from the BBC. |
| 1:24.8 | The sound there of artillery fire near the front line in eastern Ukraine. The country has been |
| 1:31.5 | engaged in a low-level war with Russian-backed separatists in the east for some five years now. |
| 1:41.3 | More than 10,000 people have died in the conflict. They continue to do so despite successive |
| 1:46.6 | ceasefire deals. But there is another war afoot. And today on Business Daily, we're talking about |
| 1:51.8 | that. What it teaches us, one moment in the story. It was called the Not Pettya attack. And whilst |
| 1:58.3 | it began in Ukraine, it soon became the most devastating cyber attack |
| 2:02.7 | the world had ever seen, spreading to companies and public utilities around the world. |
| 2:07.7 | Oleg Dorvianco was at the eye of the storm that day back in June 2017. He's the co-founder |
| 2:13.6 | and chairman of a Ukrainian internet security firm called ISSP. It was a nice and lovely summer |
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