‘Sleeping giant’ of digital eco security is critical issue for G7 leaders, says former Blair advisor

ES

World leaders have touched down on British soil for this year's G7 summit in Cornwall. They’ll iron out a Covid response and the big geopolitical, cybersecurity, and eco challenges of the year ahead.

We spoke to Nick Mabey, chief executive of climate change think tank E3G, about the challenges of convincing China to cut its reliance on coal, and addressing the 'sleeping giant' of eco infrastructure cybersecurity following the Colonial Pipeline hack.

The firm responsible for a widespread internet outage is apologising for the disruption.

Fastly, the cloud-computing company responsible for the issues, says an “undiscovered software bug” was triggered when one of its customers changed their settings.

The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity says there were over 300 serious breaches by gangs in what it describes as “critical sectors” as many countries were in lockdown.

The agency says there was nearly a 50 per cent increase in attacks targeting hospitals and surgeries as doctors battled against a surge of Covid-19 cases.

Biden withdraws Trump-era executive orders that would have banned new downloads of China’s TikTok and WeChat, plus causing confusion: a herd of elephants went against nature and travelled in the wrong direction. Why?

Listen here:

You can find us on your Spotify Daily Drive or wherever you stream your podcasts.

Create a FREE account to continue reading

eros

Registration is a free and easy way to support our journalism.

Join our community where you can: comment on stories; sign up to newsletters; enter competitions and access content on our app.

Your email address

Must be at least 6 characters, include an upper and lower case character and a number

You must be at least 18 years old to create an account

* Required fields

Already have an account? SIGN IN

By clicking Sign up you confirm that your data has been entered correctly and you have read and agree to our Terms of use , Cookie policy and Privacy notice .

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Thank you for registering

Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged in