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It’s well documented that UK companies export surveillance technology to democracies and authoritarian regimes. But the UK government is much closer to these companies than the public may realize. Continue reading UK Government Is Cozy with Companies Selling Spytech
The director of GCHQ revealed in a speech on Thursday that Britain’s top signals intelligence agency had conducted a proactive cyber campaign against ISIS, touting the notion of using hacking tools to counter violent extremism. Speaking at the CYBERUK conference in Manchester, England, GCHQ Director Jeremy Fleming said that the agency worked with the U.K. Ministry of Defense to develop and deploy the country’s cyber weapons. “Much of this is too sensitive to talk about, but I can tell you that GCHQ, in partnership with the Ministry of Defense, has conducted a major offensive cyber-campaign against Daesh,” Fleming said, using the terror group’s Arabic acronym. Fleming said the attack was the first time the U.K. “systematically and persistently degraded an adversary’s online efforts as part of a wider military campaign.” “They [ISIS] understand the value of strategic communications, the power of social media, of messaging apps to radicalize and scare,” […]
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Now this is good news. The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) — part of GCHQ — found a serious vulnerability in Windows Defender (their anti-virus component). Instead of keeping it secret and all of us vulnerable, it alerted Microsoft. I’d li… Continue reading GCHQ Found — and Disclosed — a Windows 10 Vulnerability
Now this is good news. The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) — part of GCHQ — found a serious vulnerability in Windows Defender (their anti-virus component). Instead of keeping it secret and all of us vulnerable, it alerted Microsoft. I’d like believe the US does this, too…. Continue reading GCHQ Found — and Disclosed — a Windows 10 Vulnerability
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Israeli Spies Hacked Kaspersky and Found Russian Hackers Exploiting the
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By now you might be aware of Marcus Hutchins, the
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The United Kingdom will invest up to $19 million over the next three years in an innovation center aimed at building up the country’s cybersecurity personnel and technology. According to the U.K. government, the new center in London will provide opportunities for collaboration between large firms and startups in cybersecurity technology development. The center will also offer technical mentoring, business support and advice for companies advancing the U.K. cybersecurity sector, which is estimated to be worth about $29 billion annually. “As a government, we want to support entrepreneurs and innovators every step of the way from the initial first idea to setting up a company to developing the prototype and the product and becoming a leading player in cyber across the world,” U.K. Minister of Digital Matt Hancock said in a video accompanying the government’s statement. The center will be developed and designed by the winner of a competition sponsored by the […]
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Not that knowing NSA’s sigint locations will actually help you much… Continue reading How many NSA spy hubs are scooping up your Internet data? I counted 7
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Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news Continue reading News in brief: flying cabs for Dubai; UK hit by cyberattacks; Googlers quit after earning too much money