The government organisation responsible for UK cyberdefence and, where necessary, cyberattack will begin full operations in March.

The Cyber Security Operations Centre (CSOC), which is based at the new building GCHQ in Cheltenham, will start operations on the 10th March, Labour peer Baroness Crawley revealed in a written parliamentary answer on Wednesday.

The speech goes on to say that they expect to recruit up to 19 staff who will be expected to understand the 'hacker mentality'. Whilst this would seem to suggest that they will hire from known hackers it would seem an unlikely move seeing as everyone hired would also need to pass the usual security clearance tests.

This probably means that, as per other government movements in this area, the hirees will be the usual so called anti-hacker security experts that are as much in touch with 'hacker mentalities' as a fresian cow is with brain surgery.