UK intelligence service GCHQ has launched a code-breaker challenge to help attract fresh talent.
GCHQ has set up an unbranded website to invite codebreakers. This campaign, which will be supported by social media sites, blogs and forums, is inviting cyber specialists with a "keen interest in code breaking and ethical hacking."
The UK government has ruled out introducing new anti-cyber crime laws, but could employ hackers as part of its new cyber security strategy released today.
A boost to Ministry Defence spending and a one-stop shop for reporting cyber crime are stars of the new policy, but courts will be encouraged "to use existing powers to impose appropriate online sanctions for online offences," according to the report.
Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council somehow managed to lose a memory stick that contained information on 18,000 of their residents. The stick, which was lost in May, contained details such as names, addresses and payment info but fortunately, no bank account records were present. As it turns out, the USB storage device had been used by an officer from the institution's finance department to collate information required for final accounts.
BT has been given 14 days to block access to Newzbin2, a website accused by Hollywood studios of promoting illegal file-sharing "on a grand scale", in a ruling by the UK's High Court.
In the first judgement of its kind under UK copyright law, Justice Arnold ruled in favour of a consortium of film industry giants, including Warner Bros, Paramount, Disney, Universal, Fox and Columbia, enforcing an earlier judgment that the site had made millions by exploiting others' work.
The security blunder forced the Intelligence Services Commissioner, Sir Mark Waller, and the Interception of Communications Commissioner, Sir Paul Kennedy, to pull the plug on their new website on Friday afternoon following enquiries by The Telegraph.
Every page contained an “edit” link that allowed anyone visiting the website to change any text and upload files. After it was shut down a secure version was published at a new address.
After years of wrangling, UK national Internet registry Nominet looks set to agree to a new fast-track process that will make it easier for the police to quickly shutter domains being used by criminals for fraud.
Currently, police are required to have a court order before Nominet feels liable to act on ‘.co.uk’ domains being used for criminal purposes, something that can slow down the process of closing problem domains to a crawl.
The online band of merry hackers known as Anonymous has decided to join in the spirit of rioting youth on UK street by bringing its own form of non-violent protest to Britsh web properties.
In a missive aimed at "Citizens of Great Britain" (actually we're subjects, guys) the outfit catalogues the crimes of the criminal classes that rule our roost and have begun putting together a list of potential targets, ranging from Barclays Bank through Vodafone, arms dealer Lockheed Martin to the likes of MPs Nadine Dorries and Louise Mensch.
