UK launches biggest search for code crackers and web hackers
London: Catch them young is UK's latest strategy in the global fight against the world's biggest global threat — cyberterrorism. From September, thousands of British pupils will compete in a new...
View ArticleBritish schools to hold code-breaking contests
Tweet London, June 8 (IANS) Schools in Britain may soon conduct competitions to break secret codes, aimed at developing the next generation of cyber security experts, a report said. Teenagers from 14...
View ArticleSchool codebreaking contest hunts cybersecurity talent
Continue reading the main story Related Stories Wartime pigeon message 'cracked' 7 questions on code and ciphers Hampshire code breaker's memories Schools are being urged to sign up for a codebreaking...
View Article'Irrational' hackers are growing U.S. security fear
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View Article>Crack the Alan Turing Cipher
We’re celebrating the life, work and legacy of mathematician Alan Turing on Wired.co.uk, and part of that legacy is inspiring people to work in cryptography and codebreaking — so we’ve partnered with...
View ArticleCyber Defense Agency Faces Challenges From Within
Last year, the nation's computer systems reported more than 100,000 cyber threats, or one every five minutes. The job of analyzing and preventing them was assigned to a government agency that has faced...
View ArticleFEATURE-'Irrational' hackers are growing U.S. security fear
* Aging control systems vulnerable to attack-experts * Infrastructure malfunctions loom as hackers probe networks * U.S. power grid target of daily cyber attacks By Jim Finkle May 22 (Reuters) -...
View ArticleObama proposes increase in cybersecurity budget
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama proposed on Wednesday increased spending to protect US computer networks from internet-based attacks in a sign that the government aims to put more resources into the...
View ArticleCybersecurity mainly male domain, geek image deters girls
* Women earn 18 percent of computer science degrees * Image of geek unappealing to girls By Tabassum Zakaria WASHINGTON (Reuters) - There were no lines for the ladies room. That was unusual for an...
View ArticleAttack of the zero-day hunters
Dionysus Blazakis along with Charlie Miller, won a competition by hacking into an iPhone using a technique known as'fuzzing". Photo: Matt McClain / The Washington Po Charlie Miller prepared his...
View ArticleGCHQ at the Big Bang Young UK Scientists and Engineers Fair - 14 Mar 2013...
(Source: GCHQ - Government Communications Headquarters) GCHQ took part in one of the largest celebrations of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) for young people in the country at The Big...
View ArticleGCHQ at the Big Bang Young UK Scientists and Engineers Fair - 14 March 2013...
(Source: GCHQ - Government Communications Headquarters) GCHQ took part in one of the largest celebrations of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) for young people in the country at The Big...
View ArticleGeek image deters girls from cybersecurity careers
WASHINGTON — There were no lines for the ladies room. That was unusual for an event attended by thousands but typical in the cybersecurity field where a futuristic image clashes with an old-fashioned...
View ArticleItalian resistance fighter's secret diary cracked by codebreaker
Decades after the end of the Second World War, a German amateur codebreaker has cracked the code in which an Italian resistance fighter's secret diary was written. Two years ago, the diary was...
View ArticleAll new hunt for real 'Red October'
A new revelation from a prominent Russian cyber research lab has set the cybersecurity world abuzz and has triggered a search worthy of a Tom Clancy novel. After several months of investigation,...
View ArticleThe NSA Wants Hackers, And It Wants Them On Its Side
Hey, hackers: The NSA is out to get you. If you're an American who can code malware to infiltrate a network, or snoop on SMS messages, or stop a distributed denial-of-service attack in your sleep,...
View ArticleSinclair McKay
Alan Turing: The Enigma By Andrew Hodges (1983) 1. On the face of it, a richly detailed 500-page biography of a mathematical genius and analysis of his ideas, might seem a daunting proposition. But...
View ArticleCode Breakers Finally Crack The Mysterious Cypher On The WWII Carrier Pigeon
Scientists still don't fully understand the biological mechanisms behind a pigeon's ability to navigate Israel Is Set To Receive 5,000 US Bunker Buster Bombs After Delaying Its Attack On Iran Drones...
View ArticleWWII pigeon message stumps GCHQ decoders
Britain's top code-breakers say they are stumped by a secret code found on the leg of a dead pigeon. The remains of the bird were found in a chimney in Surrey with a message from World War II attached....
View ArticleHow to Enhance Cybersecurity and Create American Jobs
From Flame to the FBI's program of protecting users from the DNS Charger trojan, one critical component is often underappreciated amidst the deluge of coverage on cyber attacks -- hardware. As its most...
View ArticleThe road to uncovering a wartime Colossus
The story of how the Colossus computer at Bletchley Park aided the allied code-cracking effort during World War II is becoming well known. Its claim to be a forerunner of modern-day computers is also...
View ArticleObama budget makes cybersecurity a growing U.S. priority
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama proposed on Wednesday increased spending to protect U.S. computer networks from Internet-based attacks in a sign that the government aims to put more...
View ArticleUPDATE 1-Obama budget makes cybersecurity a growing U.S. priority
By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON, April 10 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama proposed on Wednesday increased spending to protect U.S. computer networks from Internet-based attacks in a sign that the...
View ArticleThe hunt for Red October: five-year cyber espionage campaign uncovered
Eugene Kaspersky, CEO of Kaspersky Labs, has told Fairfax Media millions of dollars are invested every year by cyber criminals to developed sophisticated viruses. Photo: Lee Besford Cisco makes...
View ArticleUnderstanding cyberspace is key to defending against digital attacks
Charlie Miller prepared his cyberattack in a bedroom office at his Midwestern suburban home. Brilliant and boyish-looking, Miller has a PhD in math from the University of Notre Dame and spent five...
View ArticleGCHQ dismisses claims D-Day pigeon riddle has been cracked
The intelligence agency GCHQ has dismissed claims that a coded message from the Second World War found tied to the remains of a pigeon in a chimney has been cracked. David Martin with the remains of a...
View ArticleCybersecurity drive to target schoolchildren and 'risky men'
Online safety drive aims to educate children and adults – especially men – who take reckless attitude to online security Concern about levels of cybercrime has been growing, with one survey last...
View ArticleHas Amateur Codebreaker Cracked 'Zodiac Killer' Letter?
An amateur codebreaker in Massachusetts claims to have cracked a mysterious cipher used by the infamous "Zodiac Killer," possibly revealing the name of the serial killer whose true identity has...
View ArticleUK Recruits Code-Breakers With Online Puzzle
(CNN) -- Calling all code-breakers, hackers, and would-be-James Bonds: Britain's eavesdropping agency is looking for recruits. The Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ, has posted a...
View ArticleMy best lesson: turning maths pupils into World War II codebreakers
Mission accomplished: teacher turned first officer Charlotte King explains how she sent pupils on a codebreaking mission to help them learn about factors, multiples and World War II Send pupils on a...
View ArticlePigeon message stumps codebreakers
A secret World War Two message found on the leg of a dead pigeon has left 21st century codebreakers flummoxed. The code, hand-written on...
View ArticleUK codebreakers stumped by WWII pigeon message
The message, , was attached to a pigeon skeleton that was found by retired probation officer David Martin when he was renovating his house in Surrey,...
View ArticleVeteran Bletchley Park codebreakers wanted to decipher mystery pigeon message
Historians from GCHQ are appealing for the veteran code breakers of Bletchley Park to volunteer for one last act of service for their country: cracking the D-Day carrier pigeon cipher that has stumped...
View ArticleAlan Turing: The codebreaker who saved 'millions of lives'
Alan Turing - the Bletchley Park codebreaker - would have been 100 years old on 23 June had he lived to the present day. To mark the occasion the BBC commissioned a week-long series of articles to...
View ArticlePigeon Defeats U.K. Code Breakers
By CASSELL BRYAN-LOW LONDON—Britain's world-renowned code-cracking intelligence experts have admitted they've met their match—in a dead pigeon. The U.K's super secretive communications intelligence...
View ArticleWWII code experts called in to help solve mystery of the pigeon’s foot
Britain’s top code-breakers have appealed for public help to crack a secret Second World War code found attached to the leg of a dead pigeon. The message was discovered by David Martin after he ripped...
View ArticleSecret D-Day Code Found On A Dead Pigeon Has Historians Scrambling For WW II...
Historians from GCHQ are appealing for the veteran codebreakers of Bletchley Park to volunteer for one last act of service for their country: cracking the D-Day carrier pigeon cipher that has stumped...
View ArticleBletchley codebreaker Raymond Roberts honoured with stamps
A 92-year-old Bletchley Park codebreaker from Hampshire has had a set of commemorative stamps issued in his honour. Raymond "Jerry" Roberts from Liphook is the last survivor of a four-man team that...
View ArticleBirmingham computer scientists take part in national cyber security challenge...
(Source: University of Birmingham) Posted on Friday 25th January 2013 The University of Birmingham's School of Computer Science, along with 3 other leading university computer science departments in...
View ArticleEdinburgh Napier joins first cyber University Challenge (Edinburgh Napier...
(Source: Edinburgh Napier University) EDINBURGH Napier is taking part in a unique code-breaking competition as part of this year's Cyber Security Challenge UK. The University is joining computer...
View ArticleUniversity taking part in a unique code-breaking competition (University of...
(Source: University of Bristol) Press release issued 21 January 2013 • First-of-its-kind competition pitches UK Computer Science departments against each other to test their skills • Universities will...
View ArticleFormula One team under cyberattack in Cyber Security Challenge UK
War Games Stephen Miller (third from the left), winner of the 2013 Cyber Security Challenge UK competition, competes with his team at Masterclass.Cyber Security Challenge Next Slide Previous Slide In a...
View Article'Cyber Jedi' schools contest a new hope for Britain's IT empire to strike back
Ministers hope young and logical thinkers of today will in future become the force against dark lords of cybercrime Down with the younglings: ministers (or the Jedi Council) hope their padwans will see...
View ArticleCode-breaking hits UK classrooms
UK schools are being urged to take part in a code-breaking competition aiming to find new computer experts. In the first of a two-part series, DW looks at how the past is inspiring a new generation of...
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