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"Two undersea internet cables in the Baltic Sea have been suddenly disrupted,
according to local telecommunications companies, amid fresh warnings of
possible Russian interference with global undersea infrastructure.
A communications cable between Lithuania and Sweden was cut on Sunday morning
around 10:00 a.m. local time, a spokesperson from telecommunications company
Telia Lithuania confirmed to CNN.
The company’s monitoring systems could tell there was a cut due to the traffic
disruption, and that the cause was likely physical damage to the cable itself,
Telia Lithuania spokesperson Audrius Stasiulaitis told CNN. “We can confirm
that the internet traffic disruption was not caused by equipment failure but by
physical damage to the fiber optic cable.”
Another cable linking Finland and Germany was also disrupted, according to
Cinia, the state-controlled Finnish company that runs the link. The C-Lion
cable – the only direct connection of its kind between Finland and Central
Europe – spans nearly 1,200 kilometers (730 miles), alongside other key pieces
of infrastructure, including gas pipelines and power cables.
The incidents came as two of the affected countries, Sweden and Finland,
updated their guidance to citizens on how to survive war. Millions of
households in the Nordic nations will be given booklets with instructions on
how to prepare for the effects of military conflicts, communications outages
and power cuts.
Both countries joined NATO in the past two years, after Russia launched its
full-scale invasion of Ukraine."
Via Violet Blue’s
Cybersecurity Roundup: November 19, 2024
https://www.patreon.com/posts/cybersecurity-19-116282410
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
