GCHQ warned that the number of cyberattacks had doubled in a year BARRY BATCHELOR/PAThe government spy agency GCHQ has started an ambitious plan to create a national firewall to block malicious websites. Malware installed on the computers of users who visit apparently trusted websites are one of the most common cyberattacks. Hostile websites imitate familiar sites in an attempt to persuade users to download the malicious software. GCHQ, which warned that attacks had doubled in a year, said that a filtering scheme for national domain name systems (DNS) would help to combat the problem. “Last year we detected twice as many national security level cyberincidents — 200 per month — than the year before,” Ciaran…

Source: The Times September 13, 2016 22:58 UTC