From state-sponsored cyber criminals to right wing extremists spouting conspiracies about lizard people , data centres have never been under greater threat .

From state-sponsored cyber criminals to right wing extremists spouting conspiracies about lizard people , data centres have never been under greater threat .

WRITTEN BY : Let me put on my Bond Villain hat HARRY MENEAR for a moment and think about the best way to bring modern society to its knees . And let ’ s assume I want to pull this off without wiping out humanity in the process ; if I wanted to do that there are always nuclear weapons and , at the rate we ’ re going , just waiting patiently for fifty years . No , this mustache-twirling thought experiment calls for something a little less drastic than turning the planet into a radioactive wasteland , but only just . For the sake of argument , then , how would I go about taking down the Internet for long enough to topple human civilisation ?

“ The biggest security weakness has to be the security associated with access to the data that is held or being generated within the data centre ”