UK spy agency asks academics to tackle cyber risks

Britain's government says a new research institute partly funded by the country's eavesdropping spy agency will ask mathematicians and computer scientists to join the fight against cyber threats. The Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ — Britain's equivalent of the U.S. National Security Agency — said that a new 3.8-million-pound ($6.1-million) program would fund a research institute at University College London.