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The Inquirer is reporting that the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has now officially opened its doors in an attempt to help protect the country from hackers. The centre is based in London, near Victoria, and is headed by Ciaran Martin, formerly director general for cyber at GCHQ. Dr Ian Levy, currently technical director for…

The BBC is reporting that the head of the UK’s new National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has said Britain is moving towards more active defence in cyberspace. Ciaran Martin, the chief executive of the NCSC has said that the centre will be responsible for protecting government and critical infrastructure against cyber attacks. The Centre, which…

The Guardian is reporting that hackers are being paid large sums of money to find vulnerabilities, but these are significantly less than they can be paid on the dark web. “….. First to reveal its vulnerabilities was the FBI, which in April paid $1.3m to an unknown source for a hacking tool to break into…

The BBC is reporting that two Israeli teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of running a service that allowed paying customers to attack websites. “The vDos service the pair are suspected to have run bombarded target sites with data, seeking to knock them offline… … cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs.. claimed the site’s controllers had been…

Writing in the Conversation, Dr David Glance of the University of Western Australia argues that some of the anti-Virus products we install actually contain software bugs that make systems vulnerable because antivirus needs higher privileges to enable it to run. The solution, he suggests, will come from developing more robust operating systems. For years everyone has been…