A three-week wave of massive cyber-attacks on the small Baltic country of Estonia, the first known incidence of such an assault on a state, is causing alarm across the western alliance, with Nato urgently examining the offensive and its implications.
While Russia and Estonia are embroiled in their worst dispute since the collapse of the Soviet Union, a row that erupted at the end of last month over the Estonians’ removal of the Bronze Soldier Soviet war memorial in central Tallinn, the country has been subjected to a barrage of cyber warfare, disabling the websites of government ministries, political parties, newspapers, banks, and companies.
– The Guardian
Two MBA students at London Business School are helping to make the world safer for all of us.
Last year Simon Schneider, a former security consultant at IBM, and Janeen Chupa, who worked as a director on the National Security Council at the White House, launched the Global Security Challenge, a worldwide competition to find the most promising security technology start-up.
“The response was amazing,” Chupa says. “We had fantastic support from the UK and US governments, with both Lord Drayson, the (then) British UnderSecretary of State and Minister for Defence Procurement, and Eric Haseltine, an associate director at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, attending as keynote speakers.”
– The Times
A Metropolitan police officer has been charged with breaching the Official Secrets Act after leaking security information about a potential terror attack to a journalist last month. Thomas Lund-Lack, 59, who works in the Met’s counter-terrorism command has been charged with wilful misconduct in a judicial or public office after he allegedly disclosed secret documents to a Sunday Times journalist on or before April 20, knowing the information in them would be published. He was remanded in custody and will appear at City of Westminster magistrates’ court today.
– The Guardian