So too the Office of Cyber Security, situated in the Cabinet Office in Whitehall, and quietly getting on with its job of coordinating cybersecurity strategy across government.
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Asked for comment on the White House military office cyber attack, a Cyber Command spokesman referred questions to the White House.
If the Treasury and Cabinet Office (where the Office of Cyber Security is based) are wrangling over half-a-billion quid now, that represents 25-30% of the possible cybersecurity budget.
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In September FERC created an office to focus on cyber security.
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The Seoul prosecutors' office called it "unprecedented cyber-terror deliberately planned" by North Korea.
It said that the Cabinet Office supported "initiatives such as the Cyber Security Challenge, which promotes careers in cyber security via annual competitions and events".
The surge begins on Black Friday November 23rd this year followed immediately by Cyber Monday, when many go online back at the office to do shopping.
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But can the cyber-security initiative--a joint project of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Homeland Security and the National Security Agency--plug these private-sector data leaks without accessing the sensitive information of government-connected companies and their employees?
Many details of the cyber-security initiative, a collaboration between the Department of Homeland Security, the Office of the Director of the National Intelligence, and the National Security Agency, remain classified.
Within months after taking office, President Obama established an executive-branch cybersecurity coordinator and a new Cyber Command colocated with the super-secret National Security Agency at Fort Meade, MD.
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The Ministry of Justice and Home Office will also consider whether orders restricting internet use can be enforced using "cyber tags", software which triggers automatic warnings to the police or probation service that a suspect is breaching an order.
The deal would have required 600 hours of community service as well as "counseling associated with cyber-bullying and alternative lifestyles, " according to a letter sent by the Middlesex County Prosecutor's office dated Nov. 28.
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Earlier this month, Iain Lobban, the head of GCHQ, told a cyber security conference in London that a "significant" attempt was made to target the computer systems of the Foreign Office and other government departments over the summer.
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