20 May 2011

United Kingdom Treasury hacked via Amazon's cloud

[/caption]UK Treasury Chancellor George Obsborne recently speaking at Google’s Zeitgeist conference said, “it averaged out as more than one attempt per day”. The Treasury refused to expand on which countries were believed to be behind most of the cyber security threats. ‘There’s no honour among spies – and for those bidding for multi-billion pound contracts, it may be in your national economic interest to get some additional information. ‘We shouldn’t fool ourselves – everyone is doing it, including British secret services, so it’s vital we also have the right protection in place.’ Mr Osborne has consistently reiterated plans to fund a £650million national cyber security programme.]]>