Tag: GCHQ
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GCHQ Boss: Ransomware Has Doubled in a Year
The volume of ransomware attacks on UK organizations has doubled over the past year, a British spy chief has warned. Director of GCHQ, …
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GCHQ director outlines plan to ‘go after’ links between ransomware crims and state actors
The UK’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) boss Sir Jeremy Fleming has outlined a plan to pursue criminal actors who deploy …
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Ransomware attacks in UK have doubled in a year, says GCHQ boss
Jeremy Fleming, the director of GCHQ, said locking files and data on a user’s computer and demanding payment for their release had become …
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Password of three random words better than complex variation, experts say
National Cyber Security Centre recommends approach for improved combination of usability and safety It is far better to concoct passwords …
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Ransomware is biggest online threat to people in UK, spy agency chief to warn
“For the vast majority of UK citizens and businesses, and indeed for the vast majority of critical national infrastructure providers and …
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#CYBERUK21: We Have Reached a Moment of Reckoning in Cybersecurity, Says GCHQ Director
We have reached “a moment of reckoning” in the cybersecurity and technology space, and urgent action is required to address the …
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GCHQ boss warns China can rewrite ‘the global operating system’ in its own authoritarian image
The director of the UK’s signals intelligence agency has delivered a speech in which he contemplated power in the digital age, observed …
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GCHQ Director: The UK and Allies Must Counter “Existential Threat” to the Digital Environment
The UK must work with other liberal democracies to ensure the internet and emerging digital technologies remain free and open. This is the …
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Spy agency GCHQ told me Gmail’s more secure than Microsoft 365, insists British MP as facepalming security bods tell him to zip it
Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat has publicly claimed GCHQ sources told him Gmail was more secure than Parliament’s own Microsoft Office 365 …
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UK’s enemies trying to ‘tear society apart’ via social media
Speaking to the Sky News Into the Grey Zone podcast, the head of Strategic Command said: “In some respects, the most important, most …
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NCSC’s London HQ was chosen because GCHQ spies panicked at the prospect of grubby Shoreditch offices
The National Cyber Security Centre picked its London HQ building not because it was the best or most cost-efficient location – but …
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Somebody’s Russian to meddle with UK coronavirus vaccine efforts, but GCHQ won’t take it lying down
British eavesdropping agency GCHQ is actively hacking Russian attempts to undermine coronavirus vaccine efforts, according to The Times. …
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