The chief of the Norwegian Intelligence Service said that the NIS has taken on a key role in preventing foreign forces from being able to try to influence the Parliament election in the fall, following the revelations about the fact that Russia wanted to influence the election battle in the United States.
Morten Haga Lunde said that "there is a project in progress to assess how we can protect ourselves against attacks on the Norwegian social model up until the election in the fall. I am extremely concerned about how information operations are trying to create false images in social media in order to change the form of government in Europe and trying to take control of servers and data systems".
According to the interview released from Lunde to the Norwegian website VG Nett "cyber attacks are now regarded as acts of war and they legitimate countermeasures. The society may be backed into a corner if we do not have digital border control".
Lunde reported that the electricity supply has been taken down in Ukraine via cyber attacks.
He points out how an enemy player may give rise to chaos just with as straightforward a step as taking control of the traffic lights in Oslo, not to mention what will happen if air traffic control is manipulated.
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