"The government has set out measures to make online services more secure and give the public confidence that their data is protected when applying for benefits, paying taxes or accessing healthcare. The cyber action plan, backed by 210m, aims to highlight where risks lie across government and take joined-up action across departments as well as speeding up reactions to attacks. It comes amid efforts to digitise services, which the government hopes will reduce phone queues and paperwork and says could unlock up to 45bn in savings."
"Cyber attacks can take vital public services offline in minutes disrupting our digital services and our very way of life. This plan sets a new bar to bolster the defences of our public sector, putting cyber-criminals on warning that we are going further and faster to protect the UK's businesses and public services alike."
"Over the last three days it has been hard to find anyone in British politics willing to defend the US raid on Venezuela leading to the capture of its president, Nicolas Maduro. In the Commons last night, Yvette Cooper, the foreign secretary, engaged in a delicate balancing act stressing the UK's support for international law, while doing her best not to criticise the fairly blatant US breach of it as MPs from all the main parties lined up to demand a more robust pushback against Donald Trump. But this morning Kemi Badenoch has defended the US president. At the weekend, her initial response was much like Keir Starmer's noncommittal, and claiming that she could not give a proper view until more information was available. Even yesterday she was still broadly still sitting on the fence. However, this morning, in a long interview with the Today programme (which is promising in-depth, start-of-year interviews with all the main party leaders), she declared"
A £210m cyber action plan aims to make online public services more secure and protect personal data when applying for benefits, paying taxes or accessing healthcare. The plan seeks to identify risks across government, coordinate action across departments and speed up responses to cyber attacks. The initiative accompanies efforts to digitise services to reduce phone queues and paperwork and to realise up to 45bn in potential savings. Digital government minister Ian Murray warned that cyber attacks can take vital services offline in minutes and said the plan raises defensive standards. Political reactions varied, with many MPs condemning a US raid on Venezuela while some ministers offered cautious or supportive responses.
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