A speech earlier this week by unmasked-spy Jonathan Evans has put the threat of cybercrime back into the national consciousness. The MI5 director general spoke at Mansion House earlier in the week to warn of ‘real damage’ caused online — highlighting one London business which suffered a £800 million loss following an attack. He stressed the need to introduce snooping powers:
‘It would be extraordinary and self-defeating if terrorists and criminals were able to adopt new technologies in order to facilitate their activities while the law enforcement and security agencies were not permitted to keep pace with those same technological changes,’ he said.
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In tomorrow’s magazine, we have a special supplement dedicated to cybercrime and potential strategies to tackle it. Minister for Security James Brokenshire agrees with much of what Evans said on the ‘astonishing’ number of the cyber attacks we are now seeing:
‘Cybercrime might sound like some sort of sinister, underground horror that affects only intelligence agencies, foreign governments and defence contractors.
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