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GCHQ Wrong-footed By Pace Of IT Change
News The rapid pace of change in the information technology sector was responsible for a massive increase in the cost of moving the headquarters of GCHQ, Britain's secret electronic monitoring agency, the organisation has admitted.
[December 3, 2003, 16:55]
Crypto Could Force Government Hacking
News Brian Gladman, an independent cryptography researcher, suggests that the increased use of secure encryption for email communication will mean that the only way for GCHQ, the government's information-gathering headquarters, to intercept...
[November 23, 1999, 13:25]
British Government Communications Headquarters Implements Strategic Enterprise Service Management Solution
White Papers To successfully face the challenges of accelerating technological change, GCHQ required an Enterprise Management solution for its highly complex, distributed IT infrastructure. The HP OpenView Service Desk based solution gives GCHQ significantly...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Echelon: World Under Watch, An Introduction
News But the only way to intercept all the satellite traffic was for NSA and GCHQ secretly to build their own shadow ground stations. In 1971, GCHQ started operating a secret new station at Morwenstow, near Bude in Cornwall, England.
[June 29, 2000, 10:40]
Echelon: Government Spying Breeds Business Distrust
News A spokeswoman for GCHQ, the British government's intelligence base credited with operating Echelon in cooperation with the NSA, concedes that the secretive nature of its operations can lead to considerable hype as well as mistrust.
[June 30, 2000, 10:38]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog As a risible demonstration of technological ineptitude it might not be on a par with the splendidly named Dr Pepper, director of GCHQ, and his admission that in the mid-90s the heirs to Turing had failed completely to get the hang of this...
[December 5, 2003, 16:30]
A Year Ago: Government Plans E-surveillance
News Following ZDNet's interview with Akerman, Nicholas Bohm, lawyer and e-commerce advisor civil liberties organisation Cyber Rights & Cyber Liberties, suggested that the real agenda behind IOCA is being set by intelligence agency GCHQ.
[September 27, 2000, 7:02]
Surveillance: Government Plans E-surveillance
News Following ZDNet's interview with Akerman, Nicholas Bohm, lawyer and e-commerce advisor civil liberties organisation Cyber Rights & Cyber Liberties, suggested that the real agenda behind IOCA is being set by intelligence agency GCHQ.
[September 27, 1999, 11:25]
Echelon: How It Works
News In the UK, all international phone, fax and data traffic is monitored along spur cables installed and maintained by BT -- whose Martlesham Heath labs have always had a major GCHQ involvement. A dictionary at the Waihopai station station, New...
[June 29, 2000, 11:09]
Liability And Computer Security: Nine Principles
White Papers Banks use computer security mechanisms to transfer liability to their customers; companies use them to transfer liability to their insurers, or (via the public prosecutor) to the taxpayer; and they are also used to shift the blame to other...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Echelon: Sigint Under The Spotlight
News In the UK, GCHQ's legal powers openly identify one of its purposes as to promote "the economic well-being of the United Kingdom in relation to the actions or intentions of persons outside the British Islands".
[June 30, 2000, 9:35]
Key Services At Risk From Hackers
News The Communications Electronics Security Group (CESG) -- a group within GCHQ responsible for safeguarding official IT and communications -- conducted tests on the utilities' networks and warned that the risks from hackers can only get worse.
[February 23, 1999, 16:14]
News Burst: Key Services At Risk From Hackers
News The Communications Electronics Security Group (CESG) -- a group within GCHQ responsible for safeguarding official IT and Communications -- conducted tests on the utilities' networks and warned that the risks from hackers can only get worse.
[February 23, 1999, 13:59]
Wednesday
Blog Speaking as a man with a 30-letter full name, an address that doesn't fit into the normal number/street name format and handwriting that defeats GCHQ's finest decryption experts, I rarely manage to fill forms out without hitting major snags.
[November 15, 2002, 15:44]
Staff 'need Reasons' To Believe In Security
News Paul Hansford, class consultant for GCHQ and senior consultant at Insight Consulting, said that many security procedures fail because staff don't understand what their company is trying to do. Companies must ensure that their staff understand the...
[October 13, 2005, 16:20]
News Burst: Government Accused Of Suppressing Software
News It has been government policy, inspired by GCHQ, to discourage the use of cryptography," Bohm told ZDNet Wednesday. Bohm believes it has been government policy to limit the use of cryptography in the UK.
[September 8, 1999, 14:11]
Government Expert Backs Open Source
News CESG is the sister organisation of the notoriously secretive GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters). An expert at the British government's computer security headquarters, CESG (Communications-Electronics Security Group) has endorsed Linux...
[December 22, 1999, 6:00]
BT Launches Secure, Hosted IP Telephony
News BT Hosted Voice is based on Nortel's Communication Server 2000 IP telephony switch and is certified by the Communications Electronics Security Group (CESG), the information assurance arm of GCHQ, for the transmission of "restricted" voice traffic.
[September 25, 2007, 16:03]
How To Spot Echelon Listening Stations
News Most Echelon stations are, according to rapporteur Gerhard Schmid, operated by the US National Security Agency (NSA) or, in the case of the UK, by the Air Force on behalf of the British GCHQ intelligence service.
[May 29, 2001, 16:12]
Melissa In The UK? - Not Yet
News A spokesman for the communications security group at GCHQ had not heard of the virus. AOL, Demon and NetBenefit had received no reports of the virus affecting UK customers by 11am. All the ISPs contacted by ZDNet News are currently investigating...
[March 29, 1999, 10:12]
