{"id":81949,"date":"2013-07-10T16:14:25","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T14:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=81949"},"modified":"2013-07-10T16:15:50","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T14:15:50","slug":"nations-hiring-cyber-mercenaries-uk-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/81949-nations-hiring-cyber-mercenaries-uk-intelligence.html","title":{"rendered":"Nations hiring cyber-mercenaries: UK intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A British intelligence report says that other nations are hiring hackers to launch attacks against their enemies, a trend it described as particularly worrying.<\/p>\n<p>The warning over cybermercenaries came in an annual report published Wednesday by Britain&#8217;s Intelligence and Security Committee, a watchdog body of senior lawmakers that oversees Britain&#8217;s spy agencies.<\/p>\n<p>The report cited testimony from British eavesdropping agency GCHQ when it warned that foreign countries were hiring out &#8220;skilled cyber professionals&#8221; to attack a diverse range of targets including financial institutions and energy companies.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmakers didn&#8217;t go into much further detail, but there&#8217;s long been concern over the proliferation of private companies that make money by developing and distributing offensive software.<\/p>\n<p>The report also covered issues of domestic terrorism, nuclear proliferation, and counter-intelligence.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More security news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/81909-microsoft-reports-hackings-linked-to-google-report.html\">Microsoft reports hackings linked to Google report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/81897-snowden-agrees-to-asylum-in-venezuela.html\">Snowden agrees to asylum in Venezuela<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/81893-hackers-in-4-year-plot-to-steal-south-korea-military-secrets-study.html\">Hackers in 4-year plot to steal South Korea military secrets: study<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A British intelligence report says that other nations are hiring hackers to launch attacks against their enemies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":73710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[4848,5872,2974,7979],"class_list":["post-81949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-cyber-crime","tag-cyber-espionage","tag-cyber-terrorism","tag-quicknews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81951,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81949\/revisions\/81951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}