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UK Government Vows To Sink $2.3 Billion Into New Cybersecurity Plan (arstechnica.com)
The UK government has promised to spend nearly $2.3 billion over the next five years to try to tackle the growing problem of cyber attacks in the country. An anonymous reader writes: Recent research suggested that Britain is particularly susceptible to data breaches involving compromised employee account data. Nonetheless, chancellor of the exchequer Philip Hammond claimed on Tuesday that the country is "an acknowledged global leader in cyber security." Number 11's occupant crowed that the previous Tory-led coalition government had chucked 860 million pound at the problem, but Hammond then undermined himself somewhat by adding that "we must now keep up with the scale and pace of the threats we face." Which underlines the fact that the government is playing catch-up in its race against cybercrimes.
Does UK Cybersecurity Plan includes new provisions in the Snooper's Charter to mandate rectally inserted individual monitoring devices? Because if not, it doesn't go far enough in destroying privacy and dignity.
The UK government has such a great history of wise IT investment that I'm sure this new money will be well spent.
"UK Government Vows To Sink $2.3 Billion Into New Cybersecurity Plan"
Yes, and "sink" is probably the exact word that should be used to describe where the money will go.
Apparently, "flush" doesn't sound as good in a headline.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Slashdot is running ads that redirect you to a third-party website. You might not notice if you're using adblock or something similar, but this sort of thing is an actual threat.
If only HTML/Javascript could have a part in the standard that prevents these kinds of attacks.
I wish I had $ 2.3 billion to defend myself from the terrorist org UK government. UK waging wars and self righteously hacking computers around the world.
I also wish I ad $ 2.3 billion to defend myself from the terrorist org US government. Ah, same thing as UK.
compared to the money going into promoting cyber attacks going OUT from the country, I'm sure.
I think the U.S. spent more than that on the healthcare.gov website and it was awful. But that is what you get when politicians start throwing money at a problem. Funny, they never seem to throw it at someone who could actually help solve it. Instead it is just one of their friends who doesn't have a clue about what the problem really is, let alone be capable of finding an elegant solution.
For, if it were pounds, in a few months it would allow them to buy more than a few PCs.
Need to distract the populace from more pressing issues eg. a local currency in freefall? Mention cyber.
"Civilian volunteers will be recruited to help solve cybercrimes in the UK, home secretary Theresa May has said.
Unpaid volunteers and "cyber-specials" will be given police-like powers and allowed to help investigations into cybercrimes, May said. The idea forms part of wider police reforms proposed by the government."
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/police-cybercrime-volunteers
$2.3 billion dollars, when they have hoards of free volunteers, doesn't make sense.
-- Even a million monkeys bashing at a keyboard would probably want payment in bananas.
Most computer security problems arise from two main issues : under payment of those writing the code, and management of programmers by non programmers. Nearly every single security issue can be linked to those two issues. Security is the first corner programmers will cut, and non programmers have no idea of the real issues, but if they manage programmers they will make decisions that are insecure, normally to fit in with their ideas' of usability.
Any reason is a good reason to increase surveillance on all the traffic routed through the UK. The Five Eyes are pleased.
Stern voice: "we need to get this shit straightened out ASAP, blah blah blah...."..... ....ya think?