The U.K. government will spend 1.9 billion (US $2.3 billion) over the next five years to pump up its cybersecurity defenses and pay for new research. The goal of the spending is to make the country one of the “safest places in the world to do business” with a world-class cybersecurity industry and workforce, Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond said. The government has seen some recent success in fighting cyberattacks, Hammond said Tuesday.”]