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GCHQ takes on gov't IT security training
News The government is turning co-ordination of its IT security training over to the information assurance arm of British intelligence agency GCHQ. However, GCHQ said on Tuesday that its National Technical Authority for Information Assurance arm, known...
[July 1, 2009, 12:09]
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]
GCHQ denies developing mass surveillance tech
News In a press statement on Monday, GCHQ said it would not monitor internet use or phone calls for every UK citizen. The GCHQ announcement came after an article, co-authored by The Sunday Times and The Register and published on Sunday, claimed the...
[May 5, 2009, 17:16]
Oooh .. very carefully put !!
Talkback GCHQ is not developing technology to enable the monitoring of all internet use and phone calls in Britain, or to target everyone in the UK," Similarly, GCHQ has no ambitions, expectations or plans for a database or databases to store centrally all...
[May 7, 2009, 9:35]
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]
Spooks get cagey over DPI
Blog After getting all hot under the collar and denying plans to monitor UK citizen's internet usage, GCHQ suddenly got very quiet about how it expected ISPs to monitor all of our traffic data. Here are the questions I sent to the GCHQ press office today:
[May 5, 2009, 17:51]
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]
Government to honour Bletchley veterans
News It was devised by the government, in conjunction with GCHQ. This illustration shows the design of the badge, which was devised in conjunction with GCHQ The government is to give Bletchley Park WWII codebreakers a badge to commemorate their efforts...
[July 13, 2009, 16:54]
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]
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]
Passport needed for mobile phone purchases?
Blog GCHQ using the Sunday Times as an unofficial YouGov, if you like. One of the ways that a government body such as, say GCHQ, can test the popularity of a proposal is by "leaking" it to the press. My feeling is, and bear in mind this is conjecture...
[October 20, 2008, 14:16]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
