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Business
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Written by Peter Warren
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We find secret records in old machineAppeared in News of the World under the headline 'Copier Cat crime' By Guy Basnett and Pete Warren, 18/07/2010 THOUSANDS of office photocopiers containing secret or personal information are being unwittingly flogged off to potential crooks, we can reveal.The News of the World today exposes how Britain's businesses are carelessly throwing away YOUR personal and financial information left stored on used office equipment. And we show just how easy it is to retrieve, buying a cheap second-hand copier from a dealer and finding it crammed with records from a Government-linked defence firm. Worse still, like thousands of other office copiers, it was destined for export abroad to FRAUD hotspots in West Africa.
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Security agencies
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Written by George Ridley
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James Bond's old Naval department rises from the ashes Commander James Bond would approve, Naval Intelligence his old stamping ground, is about to be reborn by the Ministry of Defence. Scrapped in 1965 when it became part of the Unified Defence Staff, the Naval Intelligence Department will once again sift secrets on naval deployments around the world.
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Military technology
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Written by Peter Warren
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| The Bronze Soldier of Tallinn whose move led to a massive cyber attack on Estonia - pic courtesy Petri Krohn |
Published Sunday Times, June 6, 2010
By Michael Smith and Peter Warren
NATO is considering the use of military force against enemies who launch cyber attacks on its member states.
The move follows a series of Russian-linked hacking against Nato members and warnings from intelligence services of the growing threat from China.
A team of Nato experts led by Madeleine Albright, the former US secretary of state, has warned that the next attack on a Nato country “may well come down a fibre-optic cable”.
A report by Albright’s group said that a cyber attack on the critical infrastructure of a Nato country could equate to an armed attack, justifying retaliation.
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Government
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Written by Peter Warren
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Barack Obama made an initial review of US cyber security, but pressure is growing for the president to take further action
Published guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 9 December 2009
Security officials are urging the US President to appoint a 'cyber tsar'
For the past month or so a curious game has been going on in the world of rumour and uncertainty that passes for the intelligence community. At the heart of it is an attempt to force the US president, Barack Obama, to put cyber security back to the top of his agenda and to usher in increased monitoring of the internet.
Despite an initial promise of action and a demand for a report on the risks to the US technology infrastructure to be on his desk in 60 days, little in policy terms has been heard since.
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Security agencies
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Written by Peter Warren
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Hackers are being targeted for attack by US and UK security authorities eager to launch a cyber counteroffensive to kick them off the net Pete Warren reports Appeared in the The Guardian, Thursday 4 June 2009 Hackers who attack defence or commercial computers in the US and UK in future may be in for a surprise: a counterattack, authorised and carried out by the police and defence agencies that aims to disrupt and even knock them off the net. The secret plans, prompted by the explosion in the number of computer-crime incidents from east Asia targeting commercially or politically sensitive information, are known as "strikeback", and are intended to target hackers' computers and disrupt them, in some cases involving denial of service attacks.
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