The UK is developing a cyber-weapons programme that will give ministers an attacking capability to help counter growing threats to national security from cyberspace, the Guardian has learned.

Whitehall officials have revealed that the UK needs to have a new range of offensive options, and not just bolster defences around the country's critical services and government departments, which regularly come under attack from hackers.

Does this mean the PM can instruct the cyber-SAS to "pwn those noobz"?

I suspect that their prime defence is to reboot the system.

Or unplug it.

It's called the Gibbs Manoeuvre.