GCHQ

Join the Q: British intel agencies seek tech-savvy apprentices

GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 offer 'alternative to university'

Security11 Nov 2016 | 29

Trump's torture support could mean the end of GCHQ-NSA relationship

Comment Intelligence sharing is at risk if UK is exposed to Trump's torturous activities

Security09 Nov 2016 | 159

NSA, GCHQ and even Donald Trump are all after your data

Comment What do you do? Use manual typewriters or live in a Scottish croft? Our man advises

Channel20 Oct 2016 | 51

New GCHQ unit: Psst, breached biz bods. We won't rat you out to the ICO

National Cyber Security Centre wants you to come in for a reassuring chat

Channel13 Oct 2016 | 17

Great British Block-Off: GCHQ floats plan to share its DNS filters

Plan calls for ISPs to sign on for attack blocking system

Security14 Sep 2016 | 52

UK Parliament's back for Snoopers' Charter. Former head of GCHQ talks to El Reg

IPBill Terror law review project turned in at the holidays... and now we wait

Legal05 Sep 2016 | 28

Head of UK oversight body to join GCHQ 'tech help desk'*

Hello, IT? Just kidding, it's a crypto-buster spy centre

Legal11 Aug 2016 | 18

Privacy warriors drag GCHQ into Euro human rights court over blanket spying, hacking

Brit overseers not interested, so groups ask ECHR instead

Legal06 Aug 2016 | 41

Comms intercept commish: There were some top secret orders

That's most of it. Oh, yes, Biz Department asked to use 1984 warrants

Legal07 Jul 2016 | 12

Surveillance forestalls more 'draconian' police powers – William Hague

Infosec 2016 Let us spy on you or we'll choke off civil liberties, says ex foreign sec

Security08 Jun 2016 | 91

Letters prove GCHQ bends laws to spy at will. So what's the point of privacy safeguards?

IPB Something to bear in mind as Snoopers' Charter looms

Legal06 Jun 2016 | 34

Apple: Another bug fix. Er, thanks, GCHQ

Things that make you go hmmm...

Security23 May 2016 | 28

GCHQ's Twitter move: Wants to be 'accessible', people to 'understand'

Joins your mom in social media efforts

Legal16 May 2016 | 32

Stop resetting your passwords, says UK govt's spy network

No, seriously, it's a bad idea. Honestly

Security05 May 2016 | 170

How innocent people 'of no security interest' are mere keystrokes away in UK's spy databases

Blighty's classified manuals on mass snooping revealed

Security21 Apr 2016 | 103

GCHQ is having problems meeting Osborne's 2020 recruitment target

Spooks feel bite of general lack of cyber talent in UK – sources

On-Prem08 Apr 2016 | 143

GCHQ: Crypto's great, we're your mate, don't be like that and hate

UK spymaster tells MIT that all must cooperate in response to crims' use of ciphers

Security08 Mar 2016 | 80

Investigatory Powers Bill: Spooks willingly entering the light?

IPB Not quite the end of their prerogrative to pry

Channel01 Mar 2016 | 23

Brit spies can legally hack PCs and phones, say Brit spies' overseers

So that's that, then

Security12 Feb 2016 | 89

Ducks, Lord of the Rings, movies and maths: The GCHQ Xmas puzzle solutions revealed

Much easier when you know the answers

Bootnotes05 Feb 2016 | 19

Row over GCHQ-built voice algo MIKEY SAKKE rumbles on

Researcher maintains criticism as CESG defends tech

Security04 Feb 2016 | 11

GCHQ’s Xmas puzzle proves uncrackable

Honestly devoid of cant?

Security02 Feb 2016 | 35

Israeli drones and jet signals slurped by UK and US SIGINT teams

Snowden docs reveal Project Anarchist

Security29 Jan 2016 | 49

For fsck's SAKKE: GCHQ-built phone voice encryption has massive backdoor – researcher

Well, what did you expect?

Security19 Jan 2016 | 67

GCHQ summer schools to pay teenage hackers £250 a week

Apply now to earn megabux, free accom in Manchester

Bootnotes18 Jan 2016 | 42

We know this isn't about PRISM, Matt Warman MP. But do you?

IPB +Comment Evidence-based policy requires receiving evidence

Legal13 Jan 2016 | 46

Big Brother is born. And we find out 15 years too late to stop him

Exclusive Elected MPs were deliberately misled by Brit spy agencies

Legal16 Dec 2015 | 174

GCHQ creates Github repo, offers graph database code

Running an intelligence agency's super-database – what could go wrong with that?

Software14 Dec 2015 | 21

GCHQ Christmas Card asks YOU the questions

Festive puzzler promises cryptographic and charity payload

Legal10 Dec 2015 | 58

GCHQ can hack your systems at will – thanks to 'soft touch' oversight

Privacy International battle exposes 'bulk' warrants

Legal01 Dec 2015 | 51

GCHQ v Privacy International: Computer hacking tribunal showdown begins

Tight-lipped spy agency up before the beak

Security01 Dec 2015 | 18

Final countdown – NSA says it really will end blanket phone spying on US citizens this Sunday

We're leaving together ...

Legal27 Nov 2015 | 64

NCC pays €133m for security shack Fox-IT

Dutch cyber company acquired as NCC dreams of glorious tomorrow

On-Prem24 Nov 2015 |

Terrorists seek to commit deadly 'cyber attacks' in UK, says Chancellor Osborne

‘We know they want it’ chimes George during GCHQ speech

Legal17 Nov 2015 | 71

Ex-GCHQ chief now heads up infosec firm's advisory board

Walled gardens are 'scintillating proposition' for ex-spy

Security16 Nov 2015 | 17

Yes, GCHQ is hiring 1,900 staffers. It's not a snap decision

Increase announced days before Paris attacks

Legal16 Nov 2015 | 55

Identifying terrorists: Let's find a value for needle in haystack

IPB Or DO we bulk-slurp citizens' data, trawl whole %^* thing

Legal11 Nov 2015 | 59

GCHQ goes all Cool Dad and tags the streets of Shoreditch with job ads

IBM tried something similar in 2001, and copped a fine

Bootnotes11 Nov 2015 | 51

GCHQ director blasts free market, says UK must be 'sovereign cryptographic nation'

IA15 Hannigan also denies spy agency ever wanted backdoors

Security10 Nov 2015 | 94

Here's the little-known legal loophole that permitted mass surveillance in the UK

Law from 1984 – yes, really – let GCHQ et al run amok

Legal09 Nov 2015 | 59

GCHQ's infosec arm bins advisor accreditation scheme

Too busy listening in to phone calls to listen to customers?

Legal09 Nov 2015 | 24

GCHQ 'smart collection' would protect MPs from spies, says NSA expert

Investigatory Powers tribunal was misled by 'horsesh*t'

Security04 Nov 2015 | 37

UK ministers, not judges, to sign off on Brit spies' surveillance

IPB Independent review's recommendations to be ignored

Legal29 Oct 2015 | 79

GCHQ starts hunt for tech-savvy apprentices

Would-be Qs and backroom padawans wanted

Security29 Oct 2015 | 40

UK MPs have right old whinge about ‘defunct’ Wilson Doctrine

Home Secretary: Er, we could spy on you anyway

Legal21 Oct 2015 | 57

GCHQ to pore over blueprints of Chinese built Brit nuke plants

Concerns that software backdoors planted on plants

Security19 Oct 2015 | 120

GCHQ can and will spy on politicos, rules tribunal

What about protection for whistleblowers? - MP

Security14 Oct 2015 | 57

Edward Snowden denies making a deal with the Russian secret service

‘I burned my life to the ground to work against surveillance’

Security06 Oct 2015 | 71

GCHQ's exploding doughnut threatens to ooze into innocent field

Uncontrollable g-men crawl to local council on bended knee

Legal06 Oct 2015 | 56

UK.gov unleashes 3D virtual world to train GCHQ's kiddie division

Cyber-workforce to learn in 'Cyphinx' land from an early age, just like Nork hackers

Legal29 Sep 2015 | 20

'We can handle politicos, OUR ISSUE IS JUDGES', shout GCHQ docs

Leaked slides show UK spooks worried judicial oversight will spoil their sneaky fun

Security28 Sep 2015 | 61

Bletchley Park remembers 'forgotten genius' Gordon Welchman

Head of Hut Six 'a disastrous example to others' – GCHQ

Geek's Guide27 Sep 2015 | 78

Blighty's GCHQ stashes away 50+ billion records a day on people. Just let that sink in

SIGINT and DIGINT revealed

Legal25 Sep 2015 | 57

KARMA POLICE: GCHQ spooks spied on every web user ever

Leaked docs show how out-of-control spy agency went full Stasi on innocent surfers

Legal25 Sep 2015 | 112

Human Rights Watch demands to know who's been snooping on it

Handy guide to complaining about illegal surveillance launched

Legal15 Sep 2015 | 11

Did GCHQ illegally spy on you? Now you can find out – from this page

Privacy International launches latest online campaign

Security14 Sep 2015 | 39