Defence groups move to cybersecurity
Most contractors now have a cyber element and are spreading out from their traditional defence customers to other government agencies and industry
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As internet-based threats race up national security agendas and governments look at ways of protecting their national infrastructures a cyber arms race is causing concern to the developed world
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Battle against ‘hacktivists’ set to continue despite Sabu arrest
The demise of a leading hacker and political activist will not diminish the challenge facing the authorities
Cyberhackers are the most sinister of troublemakers
Hacking has become a much more serious, society-threatening crime – less like pickpocketing, say, than counterfeiting, writes Christopher Caldwell
Bank security: Thieves down the line
Many US institutions are ill-prepared and some are reluctant to invest in technology needed to stop business accounts from being hacked
US goes public with spying frustrations
Washington has been reluctant to point the finger at rival powers but a new report directly blames governments for campaigns to steal American technology
Companies make it easy for hackers
Although cleaning up past software errors is time-consuming and difficult – as Sony has found – none of it is beyond the corporate grasp, writes John Gapper
America has double standards in fighting cyberwar
The US must show that the use of cyber-weapons will be rare and subject to the same rules as the conventional use of force, writes Thomas Wright
The case for cyberdefence
Governments, for their part, must include the private sector in their defensive planning. An attack on the banking sector, for example, could be crippling
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