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UK Former British spy chief says encryption of online communications very positive for national security

A former British spy chief said on Friday that encryption of online communications was "very positive" for the country's national security interests

Former head of Britain's spy agency says Russia should face retaliation for causing mayhem in cyberspace

Russia is causing cyberspace mayhem and should face retaliation said, the former head of Britain's GCHQ spy agency.

GCHQ warns British govt that next general elections are vulnerable to cyberattacks by Russian hackers

Spies at the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) have called an emergency summit with Britains political parties after warning them that the next general election is vulnerable to cyber attacks by the Russians.

Mass retention of data is illegal, says European Union court

The Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) said its ruling was based on the view that holding traffic and location data en masse allowed "very precise conclusions to be drawn concerning the private lives of the persons whose data has been retained".

Britain's intel agencies urged to help increasing cyber security in financial services

Britain's intelligence agencies need to do more to help regulators to protect the financial services industry from cyber crime, the head of an influential parliamentary committee said on Monday.

US and UK spies tried accessing data from passengers' mobile phones on commercial airline, says report

American and British spy agencies have tried to intercept data from passengers' mobile phones on commercial airlines including Air France, French media has reported, citing documents from US whistleblower Edward Snowden.

British spy agency GCHQ joins Twitter

British spy agency GCHQ, which specialises in garnering intelligence from communications, on Tuesday joined the micro-blogging website with its first tweet "Hello World".

GCHQ has disclosed more than 20 vulnerabilities in 2016

UK's premier signal intelligence agency Government Communications Headquarters also known as GCHQ claims that it has helped disclose and fix around two dozen individual vulnerabilities in the last few months in 2016.

Latest Snowden revelations: Britain hacked into Pak routers to identify terrorists

Britain secretly obtained vast amounts of communication data from Pakistan to identify terrorists by hacking into routers in the country, Edward Snowden claimed.

Intelligence breakdown among top spy agencies behind 2008 Mumbai terror attacks: New report

Citing what it called "hidden intelligence breakdowns" behind the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, a new investigative report has described Mumbai "as a tragic case study in the strengths and limitations of high-tech surveillance".