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The Register
January 15, 2018
Comment Questions have been raised over the UK Home Office's most senior civil servant's involvement in the banning of GSM gateways – following botched redactions to freedom-of-information responses by Ofcom. When Ofcom – Blighty's comms regulator – first banned GSM gateways in 2003 the manÃâà...
MuckRock
January 8, 2018
For starters, it is shocking that the NTAC had not been paying attention to a white supremacist group operating within their state - but what's really incredible is the dig at the ... Continuing the trend, the Central California Intelligence Center was largely focused on the threat from “anarchist extremists” …
Live Law
December 31, 2017
This event is a unique blend of two innovative competitions specially designed to hone and harness the legal debate and judgment writing intelligence of law students across the country. The Competition is intertwined with the objective to train students in the area of trial advocacy and also to cultivate theÃâà...
ZDNet
October 17, 2017
In its 2016-17 Annual Report [PDF], the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) explained that Australia continued to be a target of espionage ... the National Threat Assessment Centre (NTAC), the Jihadist Network Mapping and Targeting Unit, and the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC).
The Ferret
September 4, 2017
Police Scotland are using an Israeli based technology firm to crack the security protections on a growing number of mobile phones each year, The Ferret can reveal. Freedom of information requests show that in the last three years Police Scotland have successfully obtained data from at least 35,973Ãâà...
The Register
August 11, 2016
Joanna Cavan OBE, a champion for transparency as the head of the UK's oversight body for communications interception, is set to take the top job at GCHQ's National Technical Assistance Centre (NTAC). After five of the "the most challenging and rewarding years with [the Interception of CommunicationsÃâà...
The Intercept
June 7, 2016
“Intelligence whistleblowers have warned that the agencies are drowning in data — and now we have it confirmed from the heart of the U.K. ... Many of the agency's larger-scale surveillance operations were being conducted in coordination with the National Technical Assistance Centre, a unit of theÃâà...
The Register
December 16, 2015
Located inside the riverside headquarters of the Security Service, MI5, in Thames House, PRESTON works alongside and links to massive databases holding telephone call records, internet use records, travel, financial, and other personal records held by the National Technical Assistance Centre (NTAC),Ãâà...
Register
June 3, 2014
BT and Vodafone/C&W also operate extensive long distance optical fibre communications networks throughout the UK, installed and paid for by GCHQ, NSA, or by a third and little known UK intelligence support organization called the National Technical Assistance Centre (NTAC). Snowden's leaks revealÃâà...
Slate Magazine (blog)
August 30, 2013
U.K. authorities have also drafted the National Technical Assistance Centre, a little-known section of GCHQ made up of cryptography experts and ... TrueCrypt has previously proved too difficult for the FBI to crack, but NTAC will likely devote its full resources into gaining access to the documents, and it mayÃâà...