Andrew Parker, outgoing Director-General of the UK’s MI5, has been giving interviews to carefully selected media contacts as he prepares to leave his post this month. Asked what he thought was the greatest change he has seen during his time at the service, he replied that it was the recruitment …
10 March: The UK government’s plans to allow Huawei limited access to development of its 5G network squeaked past in the House of Commons. Thirty-eight Conservative MPs refused to follow the government’s instructions and voted for an amendment to the Telecommunications Infrastructure Bill that would have banned Huawei as a …
4 March: The BBC Security Correspondent Gordon Corera has published an article on the BBC News website evaluating the fallout from the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal in March 2018. Corera points out that 23 Russian spies were expelled from the UK and that the Security Service was forced to …
21 February: In the UK, MI6 has announced that it is reducing the minimum age requirement for joining from 21 to 18. It is hoped that this will attract younger people who are more familiar with modern technology. Alex Younger, the current ‘C’, used the term “live” technology during a …
Palestinians, believed to be working for Hamas, have tried to install malware the mobile phones of Israeli soldiers. The operation involved girls offering romantic chat in Hebrew. Having established a connection, soldiers were told that they needed to download a program so that the girl could share pictures and private …