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The BBC has revealed that TalkTalk's net filtering system, which blocks millions of web addresses and has been praised by Prime Minister David Cameron, is being controlled by Chinese networking giant Huawei.

Huawei has come under scrutiny in recent months after being blocked from doing business with the US after allegations that it has links to the People's Liberation Army in China and that ultimately any Chinese company is subject to the Chinese government.

 The United Kingdom is currently in the process of introducing an ‘opt-in’ requirement for any web user wishing to view adult content. Within the next eighteen months, Prime Minister David Cameron has requested that all internet service providers (ISPs) block access to adult material by default, requiring that any user trying to access such content must tell their ISP that they wish to do so. For now, ISP compliance is voluntary, but Prime Minister Cameron has indicated that he will consider introducing legislation to force those that don’t comply.

Nine of the world's biggest weapon makers and telecoms providers are teaming up with Britain to bolster the country's cyber security, aiming to tackle the increasing threat of hacking and other such attacks.

Britain made cyber security one of its top national defence priorities in 2010, citing the growing menace of digital attacks from criminals and state-sponsored overseas groups.

The British Government will be deciding what its citizens can see on the internet by the end of 2013 because some adults decided to breed and cannot take responsibly for what they spawned.

Under David Cameron's Britain, filters will be installed on every ISPs server which will forbid access to content deemed unfit for children.

Several UK Internet providers have quietly added a list of new sites to their secretive anti-piracy blocklists. Following in the footsteps of Sky, the first ISP to initiate a proxy blockade, Virgin, BT and several other providers now restrict access to several torrent site proxies. The surprise isn’t really that proxies have been added to the blocklist, but that the music industry and ISPs are failing to disclose which sites are being banned.

Following High Court orders, six UK ISPs are required to block subscriber access to several of the world’s largest torrent sites.

While the UK intelligence community is happy to do business with Chinese telecom maker Hauwei, British politicians are listening to their increasingly McCarthyist chums in the US.

The US has been purging Hauwai from its networks because the outfit's CEO Ren Zhengfei worked for the Chinese military several decades ago.

The Cabinet Office and the government-backed Cyber Security Challenge have launched a code-breaking competition in schools, as they continue their search for talented youngsters with security skills.

The Cyber Security Challenge was set up in 2010 in a bid to close the skills gap in the security industry and has now crowned three champions, handing out plenty of prizes to those with exemplary security skills.

Skyscape Cloud Services, a British cloud SMB, has won a £1.5 million ($2.3 million) annual contract to provide security for the background check system British citizens use to reveal any criminal records to prospective employers.

Barclays Wealth & Investment Management is using Nuance's FreeSpeech voice biometrics solution to automatically confirm and identify customers, instead of using security questions that rely on the customer's ability to remember a number of different details.

Security questions—often referred to as "knowledge-based authentication"—can be time-consuming and frustrating for customers that have to provide often hard-to-recall information on obscure topics.

A new front has been opened in the long-running dispute over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands, after UK hackers attacked an online game in which Argentine special forces battle British 'terrorists' for control of the islands.

On Monday 24 March, Dattatec.com, a company based in Rosario, Argentina, launched a version of the popular online game Counter Strike based in the Falklands. The company claims it has already been downloaded 15,000 times.