HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) will be the first Government department to crack down on so-called \u2018phishing scams\u2019, following reports of a rise in fraudulent emails purporting to be from the Revenue and tricking taxpayers into releasing sensitive information.<\/p>\n
The news comes shortly after Chancellor Philip Hammond announced that the Government would invest some \u00a31.9billion in improving cyber security.<\/p>\n
He said: “If we want Britain to be the best place in the world to be a tech business then it is also crucial that Britain is a safe place to do digital business\u201d.<\/p>\n
HMRC, which will introduce and implement what it calls \u2018domain-based message authentication, reporting and conformance\u2019 (Dmarc), hopes to block some 500 million phishing emails by being the first Government department to crack down on cybercrime.<\/p>\n
In collaboration with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the tax authority will implement Dmarc for all UK public sector bodies in a bid to eliminate all malicious emails that \u2018appear to come from Government\u2019, according to reports.<\/p>\n
Edward Tucker, head of HMRC cyber security, said: \u201cWith Dmarc, we can now stop almost all of the [500 million phishing emails a year seen in 2014 and 2015] from ever reaching our customers\u2019 inboxes.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be able to have such a dramatic effect in reducing the threat to our customers [would be] a huge achievement,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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