UK Treasury key target for cyber attacks says Osborne

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UK Treasury is seeing a cyber attack a day said Osborne

The UK Treasury is being subjected to a cyber attack every day on average, according to Chancellor George Osborne. He said that last year [2010] "hostile intelligence agencies made hundreds of s...

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