The Home Office has announced a plan to bring together the skills of the police, industry experts and academics in a Cyber Crime Reduction Partnership (CCRP) to help to stamp out cyber-crime. Security minister James Brokenshire announced ...
The UK is to offer around 100 18-year-olds training in advanced IT skills to bolster the expertise of intelligence agencies in fighting cyber crime. The scheme was announced by foreign secretary William Hague during a visit to Bletchley ...
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A US congressional panel examining the Chinese telecom firms Huawei and ZTE is concluding an investigation into whether the companies' equipment is a threat to US infrastructure and commercial confidentiality with a public hearing. In ...
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The International Cyber Security Protection Alliance (ICSPA) has launched an initiative to pool cyber crime intelligence from business, government, law enforcement, security agencies and IT security professionals. Called Project 2020, the ...
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Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude has claimed that the UK is better able to deal with cyber threats than a year ago. On the anniversary of the inception of the UK cyber strategy,Maude,who oversees the strategy,has claimed that the UK ...
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Government spy agency GCHQ has unveiled a cyber incident response scheme that is intended to help public-sector organisations that form part of the UK's critical national infrastructure in dealing with cyber attacks. The pilot scheme, ...
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The CESG,the Information Assurance(IA)arm of GCHQ,has launched a UK scheme to develop skills and certify IT professionals in IA and cyber security. The CESG Certification for IA Professionals scheme aims to help the government and UK ...
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The government will spend £2m a year until 2014 on a cyber security advice centre that aims to improve international co-ordination, increase access to expertise and promote good governance online. The "Centre for Global ...
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The government's spy agency,GCHQ,is to launch a programme today that aims to help business leaders in their attempts to tackle the growing threat of cyber attacks. The programme,dubbed Cyber Security for Business,will be the first time ...
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