UK government planning "Cyber Territorial Army"

[menotu]

By Rene Millman, 3 Dec 2012 - itpro

IT reservists needed to combat threat of foreign hackers

The government is to set up a "Cyber Reserve" unit to deal with IT security threats posed by foreign countries.

The new unit will be established next year and run by the Ministry of Defence. The unit will allow the armed forces to "draw on the wider talent and skills of the nation in the cyber field", according to a parliamentary statement by Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude.

"We are constantly examining new ways to harness and attract the talents of the cyber security specialists that are needed for critical areas of work," said Maude.

The exact composition of the new unit is currently in development and a detailed announcement will follow in 2013. The MoD has already established a military Joint Cyber Unit based at GCHQ.

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[jaydot]

if their usual competence is any metric, it will fail miserably.

[ppiklapp]

if their usual competence is any metric, it will fail miserably.

They could always do what the US does, recruit the ones that get caught.  Not the best solution, because the one that are caught are not up to the ones that run rampant over the net. 

If the caught one of the members of Anonymous, they may have a chance at stopping ones like the Ausberger's guy that hacked government files.

[jaydot]

oh that asberger's guy is and was no threat.  he's one of those daft besoms searching out extraterrestrials and their flying saucers.  the really dangerous ones are the phishers after your credit card number and access to your bank account.