A UK House of Lords committee has determined that Internet security for the UK's critical infrastructure is among the best in Europe.

"Essential UK utilities, banking and government systems are 'reasonably well-placed' to cope with disruptions from cyberattacks and natural disasters, the Lords European Union committee said in a report on Tuesday," writes ZDNet UK's Tom Espiner. "However, vulnerabilities in systems in other EU member states and European internet infrastructure could have an unforeseeable knock-on effect on UK systems, committee chairman Lord Jopling told ZDNet UK on Wednesday."

"A source close to the report said some Eastern European countries have internet security deficiencies within their national computing infrastructures," Espiner writes. "The source declined to identify any particular countries, but said that in general the more recently the country had joined the EU, the poorer the state of the country's Internet security."

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