The UK runs a secret internet surveillance station in the Middle East which it uses to capture and process huge quantities of emails, telephone calls and internet traffic on behalf of GCHQ and the US National Security Agency (NSA). The ...
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An audit of US National Security Agency eavesdropping has found that the security agency routinely violates its own privacy rules. According to a leaked, supposedly top secret audit, the NSA violated its on privacy policies 2,776 times in ...
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The Communications Electronics Security Group (CESG) has launched two new schemes to help organisations obtain the relevant expertise in the event that they are subjected to a cyber-attack. CESG, the information security arm of British ...
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The PRISM revelations and the National Security Agency's programme of obtaining data from web firms could cost the American cloud computing industry $35bn (£23bn) over the next three years, as wary customers switch to providers that ...
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The US National Security Agency (NSA) is attempting to beef up its security by letting go of 90 per cent of its system administrators, automating their roles instead. The NSA has faced increased scrutiny after former contractor Edward ...
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One of Britain's most senior security officials will review a cybersecurity centre operated by Chinese company Huawei after concerns that the telecommunications firm - which is playing an increasingly large role in Britain's internet ...
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The Houses of Parliament want to move to Microsoft Office 365, and will mitigate the risk of the US Patriot Act by making contractual agreements to ensure sensitive data sits in Europe. At the Cloud World Forum in London Olympia today, ...
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British spy agency GCHQ taps and stores all transatlantic network traffic, totalling between 60 and 100 petabytes, for at least three days. That is the claim of investigative journalist Duncan Campbell, speaking at The World Conference of ...
British spy agency GCHQ is tapping global internet traffic and phone calls, processing information from around the world which it is sharing with its opposite number in the US, the National Security Agency (NSA). That is the latest ...
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More secret National Security Agency documents leaked by Edward Snowden to The Guardian suggest that the U.S. agency's British counterpart intercepts petabytes worth of communication data daily from fiber-optic cables. The operation ...
Smartphone maker BlackBerry, which enjoys a particularly strong niche in the enterprise due to its security claims, has defended itself against allegations that its security was penetrated by the spies at GCHQ. According to the Guardian, ...
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Fresh from yesterday's revelations about BlackBerry security holes discovered by GCHQ at 2009's G20 meetings, BlackBerry is fighting similar claims against its newest BlackBerry 10 platform. BlackBerry posted an advisory on its Knowledge ...
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EU Commissioner for Justice Viviane Reding has raised her concerns over the Prism surveillance information-sharing programme with the US Attorney General Eric Holder, who she is to meet in Dublin on Friday. In a statement on her website, ...
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William Hague has branded allegations that the UK government's electronic surveillance centre, GCHQ, has been asking the US National Security Agency for data on UK citizens "nonsense" in comments made before a promised explanation later ...
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GCHQ is reported to have generated 197 intelligence reports from the National Security Agency UK foreign secretary William Hague has denied claims that the intelligence agency Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) violated the law ...
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