Eight universities to help counter cyber attacks

Intelligence agency GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) has selected eight universities as collaboration partners to improve government and industry cyber security, writes Richard Tyler for The Telegraph.

The Treasury has admitted it has been under sustained attack by foreign intelligence agencies, with Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne saying that wider government received up to 20,000 malicious emails every month.

Ministers set aside £650 million (US$1 billion) of new money last autumn to better protect key infrastructure and defence assets from cyber warfare, with half that going to GCHQ.

The government hopes that encryption techniques and other expertise that is not considered top secret might have commercial applications, and wants to see more companies working with universities.
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