A major increase in resources devoted to combating the threat posed by internet attacks will feature in next week’s strategic defence and security review, the government’s cyber tsar signalled today.Neil Thompson, director of the Office for Cyber Security, spoke of a “step change” in the government’s approach to the threat. Cyber attacks were “cheap, quick, and deniable”, he said.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/oct/13/strategic-defence-review-cyber-securityAlso see:Editorial: Cyber warfare: Low blows
There are 1,000 emails a month trying to penetrate or disable government computer networks. Losses from online banking fraud reached £39m in the first half of 2009, a rise of more than 50% over the year before. Whichever way you look at it, the director of GCHQ, Iain Lobban, was not exaggerating when he said this week that Britain’s critical infrastructure faced a real and credible threat from cyber attack.As each government conducts more of its business online, the bar for entry to the espionage game is being lowered. Cyberspace is not no man’s land. It is a battlefield contested every day, hour, minute and second. Mr Lobban’s rare foray into the limelight is not accidental. On Monday the government will publish the “strategic context” of its defence review, and it is likely that cyber warfare will feature prominently in it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/oct/14/cyber-warfare-gchq-espionage
Strategic defence review to prioritise Britain’s cyber security
A major increase in resources devoted to combating the threat posed by internet attacks will feature in next week’s strategic defence and security review, the government’s cyber tsar signalled today.