Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has announced the UK is building a new digital warfare centre capable of launching 'offensive' cyber attacks against hostile powers
The Telegraph: Britain to carry out ‘offensive’ cyber attacks from new £5bn digital warfare centre
Britain will launch “offensive” cyber attacks in response to similar assaults or disinformation campaigns by “hostile states” such as Russia, the Defence Secretary has said, as he unveiled plans for a £5bn digital warfare centre in the heart of the red wall.
In an interview with The Telegraph, Ben Wallace revealed that the new National Cyber Force headquarters will be built in the North West, in a move Boris Johnson hopes will emulate the construction of GCHQ, the government’s listening post, outside Cheltenham under Winston Churchill’s premiership.
Mr Wallace said the agency, which is expected to employ thousands of hackers and analysts by 2030, would “put Britain at the front” of countries with the ability to carry out cyber attacks.
“We will be one of the very, very few nations in the world with that scale,” he said.
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WNU Editor: This is on top of the UK government moving to monitor everyone's social media accounts .... UK Military Wants to Spy on Social Media to Detect “Change in Population Sentiment” (Summit News).
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