GCHQ listening posts

The EU is also likely to be side-lined in security matters. The US and UK work closely together on intelligence, with GCHQ by far the most important listening post in Europe. While cooperation on terrorism between Britain and the EU member states is unlikely to be compromised by Brexit, there is little doubt ...

The GCHQ listening post in Cheltenham. Image: Serious crime and national security investigations were found lawful. DRIPA expired at the end of 2016 and was replaced by the Investigatory Powers Act (IP Act), which has now begun to come into force. Liberty is also challenging the IP Act in a case to be ...

The GCHQ listening post in Cheltenham. Image: Carillion built GCHQ's 'doughnut' in Cheltenham. It expanded its interests - buying a string of companies including Mowlem in 2006 and Alfred McAlpine two years later. The Wolverhampton-based company described itself as an "integrated support business" ...

The next generation of spies and codebreakers are being lured away from jobs at GCHQ to tech companies and banks, leading to an extreme hiring shortage. Prolonged security clearance and a rigorous vetting process is required before a potential candidate can be considered to work at the UK's ...

GCHQ said that ranged from "technical stuff... right through to what we would say is the high end of counter-state offensive cybercapabilities which might never be used, and everything in between." What might those weapons look like in real life? The Times reports techniques including "the ability to make ...

Ciaran Martin, the chief executive of the National Cyber Security Centre, a part of GCHQ, said the UK is facing "two significant groups of threats in cyberspace": hostile states and ... NCSC was set up a year ago as the public-facing and defence-focused side of the UK's signals intelligence agency GCHQ.

Sheffield start-up Ioetec has been selected to join an 'accelerator' run by government listening post GCHQ to create the next generation of leaders in cyber security. ... It is a partnership between GCHQ, the National Cyber Security Centre, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and Wayra UK, ...

The privacy group is challenging a ruling by the IPT that allows MI5, MI6 and GCHQ - the Government's listening post in Cheltenham - to spy on hundreds of thousands of Britons using one, sweeping warrant. The “thematic warrants” allow UK security services to hack, for example, “the computers of ...

Brian Lord, 56, who worked for 21 years as deputy director for intelligence and cyberoperations at GCHQ, the government listening post, was accused of sexually assaulting a woman for two to three minutes during the party game. Lord, who now works in the private sector and is described as a “leading ...

... of Justice - he used GCHQ." The accusation prompted a rare public statement from the UK intelligence agency. The denial read: "Recent allegations made by media commentator Judge Andrew Napolitano about GCHQ being asked to conduct 'wiretapping' against the then president elect are nonsense.