Emerging smart cities will likely become attractive targets for malicious actors, an expert at the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC ) warned on Friday. The warning came as NCSC published its first guidance for the development of smart cities in the UK. In a blog post introducing the guidance, Ian Levy, the NCSC’s technical director, said that an “Italian Job” would be “catastrophic” in the 21st century when computers “control more aspects of our physical lives than ever before.” Levy was referring to the 1969 heist film “The Italian Job,” in which magnetic storage tapes for the Turin traffic control were switched to create a gridlock as a part of the escape plan. “A similar ‘gridlock’ attack on a 21st-century city would have catastrophic impacts on the people who live and work there, and criminals wouldn’t likely need physical access to the traffic control system to do it,” the blog reads. …