I tweeted some thoughts on the news of the UK’s new cyber force, and thought I’d follow up with a short blog. The short background is that the UK government has announced a new £250 million joint MOD-GCHQ cyber force. The purpose of this is...
If you're at all interested in all things cyber security, then you will know this has been an interesting summer. Most notably, I think, have been the allegations (reasonably substantiated in my opinion) of Russian state backed hacking of, and subsequent leaking of material from,...
The idea of disruptive hacking has long been a favourite of the media and certain talking heads. The idea that a dedicated team with laptops could take out the power and other critical services across a whole country is one that captures the imagination, and...
Breaches of financial systems have been in the news a lot recently, with the recent admission by US bank JP Morgan of a massive compromise, and the revelation that the same group of hackers had targeted other financial institutions. Following this breach, in the UK the Treasury Select Committee...
News of a cyber attack on South Korea has made the news this morning. Details remain sketchy but press reports include outages at three broadcasters and two banks. There is little technical detail, but there does appear to have been some disruption. To quote from the...