The UK intelligence agencies (GCHQ, MI6 and MI5) are campaigning for greater powers for themselves as they seek to ease the safeguards that control their access to people’s personal data. In 2016, the UK Parliament introduced legal safeguards after the Edward Snowden revealed that the intelligence agencies were using their …
In the wake of the (barely believable) news that thousands of classified emails from the Pentagon have mistakenly been sent to Russian ally Mali (see below – https://spyingtoday.com/2023/07/22/how-to-succeed-in-espionage-without-really-trying/) the UK’s Ministry of Defence has admitted that it has committed the same error. The problem is caused by typing .ML (Mali) …
Sometimes you don’t have to mount a sophisticated operation, the intelligence just drops into your lap. Millions of emails sent by the US military have ended up in Mali because some American soldiers can’t tell the difference between .MIL and .ML – which is Mali’s domain name. Unfortunately Mali also …
There has been a considerable increase in the number of cyber attacks against Russia in the past eighteen months. Aleksandr Shoitov, the Russian deputy minister for digital affairs, said at the end of June: “The attacks are really getting harder.” He also hinted at the sophistication of the attacks: “Hackers …
According to the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), it is almost exactly twenty years old (in the UK at least). The NCSC is an offshoot on the the UK’s signal intelligence agency, GCHQ. In a statement released on its website at the end of June, the NCSC revealed that …