GCHQ warns private sector bosses of unprecedented cyber-attack threat

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/sep/05/gchq-private-sector-cyber-attack

By Richard Norton-Taylor
guardian.co.uk
4 September 2012

GCHQ, the government's electronic eavesdropping and security agency, is 
to warn the chief executives of Britain's biggest companies about an 
unprecedented threat from cyber-attacks.

Ministers and the intelligence agencies are for the first time 
confronting senior private sector company figures over their failure to 
protect their businesses from cyberthreats to their personal data, 
online services and intellectual property.

"GCHQ now sees real and credible threats to cybersecurity of an 
unprecedented scale, diversity, and complexity", said Ian Lobban, the 
agency's director.

There have been determined and successful efforts to steal intellectual 
property, access defence information and disrupt government, he says in 
a foreword to a GCHQ publication, an "Executive Companion - 10 Steps to 
Cyber-Security".

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