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Japan Makes New Policy for Bangladeshi Knitwear
Feb 9, 2015Japan has agreed in principle to further relax rules of origin norms for importing knitwear from Bangladesh, and modalities for the same are being worked out, foreign secretary M Shahidul Haque told reporters after his meeting with the ...
Tags: Knitwear, knitwear products
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The UK Runs a Secret Internet Surveillance Station in The Middle East
Aug 23, 2013The 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 ...
Tags: Computer Products, software, data
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We Caught The Heng Xing 1and Two Other Ships on The High Seas Laundering Tuna
Jul 11, 2013In the ice-cold cargo hold of a pirate tuna vessel in the Pacific, I have somehow lost my shoe. Frozen tuna fins slice my unshod foot as I fumble around on all fours, reaching into the gigantic, frigid pile. I had boarded the pirate ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, fish
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GCHQ Is Tapping Global Internet Traffic and Phone Calls
Jun 24, 2013British 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 ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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GCHQ Has Been Asking The US National Security Agency for Data on Uk Citizens "Nonsense"
Jun 13, 2013William 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 ...
Tags: Computer Products, web security
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William Hague Has Denied Claims That GCHP Violated The Law Over Us Monitoring Programme
Jun 13, 2013GCHQ 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 ...
Tags: Prism Spying, GCHQ
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Government Allocated to Cyber Security in 2010 Was Recently Branded "Embarrassing"
Apr 26, 2013The £650m over four years that the government allocated to cyber security in 2010 was recently branded "embarrassing" by Bob Ayres, a former intelligence officer at the US Department of Defense, in an interview with Computing, and ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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The Government's £650m Budget for Cyber Security Is Not Sufficient
Apr 15, 2013Ex-Metropolitan Police cyber crime detective and current MD of Cyber Security Consulting - which still handles government contracts - Adrian Culley has told Computing that the government's £650m budget for cyber security is not ...
Tags: Cyber Security, Computer Products
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The Devotion of £500,000 a Year Is to Be Sited
Apr 11, 2013Foreign secretary William Hague has announced the devotion of £500,000 a year to the opening and running of a global cyber research centre to be sited at the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford. The Global Centre for ...
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The UK Has Joined 25 Countries in Committing to a Set of Principles Intended
Jan 29, 2013The UK has joined 25 countries in committing to a set of principles intended, they claim, to make digital networks more secure and resilient. Foreign secretary William Hague signed the World Economic Forum's Partnering for Cyber ...
Tags: digital networks, Cyber Resilience, UK Cyber Security Strategy U
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UK to Offer Around 100 18-Year-Olds Training in Advanced IT Skills to Fight Cyber Crime
Dec 28, 2012The UK is to offer around 100 18-year-olds training in advanced IT skills to bolster the expertise of intelligence agencies in fighting cyber crime. The scheme was announced by foreign secretary William Hague during a visit to Bletchley ...
Tags: UK, GCHQ, cyber crime, training, advanced IT skills, 18-year-olds
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Companies Must Take Responsibility for Cyber Security at Board Level,Warn Government Urged
Dec 27, 2012Companies must take responsibility for cyber security at board level to tackle the exponential growth in attacks, the government has urged. The warning comes as ministers launch a Cyber Security for Business booklet to encourage company ...
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Anonymous Brought Down Government Websites in Protest at UK's Handling Julian Assange
Dec 26, 2012Hacktivist group Anonymous claims it brought down government websites in protest at the UK’s handling of the asylum case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The group targeted the websites of No. 10, the Home Office, the Ministry ...
Tags: Anonymous, Computer Products, Government Websites, Julian Assange
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All That Remains Is for Paul Mccartney to Sing Us off to Our Slumbers
Dec 10, 2012Good night, good night All that remains is for Paul McCartney to sing us off to our slumbers. It's been a terrific night, a glorious ceremony, a rousing history lesson and far and away the best film that Danny Boyle never made. Thanks ...
Tags: Olympics, opening ceremony, democratic spirit, Olympic flame
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The Government Is to Spend GBP 2m a Year on a Cyber-Security Centre
Oct 4, 2012The government is to spend GBP2m a year on a cyber-security centre. The centre will act as an international forum to draw together private sector,governments and international organisations,said the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in a ...
Tags: Government, cyber security centre, foreign secretary, William Hague