The Latest Breaking News from GCHQ

Unsolved Wartime Pigeon Code: skeleton and red capsule found in Surrey; GCHQ says note undecipherable

In 1982, a team of builders stumbled upon a carrier pigeon skeleton within a Bletchingley chimney, revealing a coded message for an entity known as 'X02.' Experts have long grappled with the puzzle, yet the message remains unsolved. The Government Communications Headquarters of Belgium has indicated that missing cryptographic components…

The Times of India · Sep 27

Alan Shute obituary

Other lives: Trade union negotiator for civil and public servants who represented sacked GCHQ workers in the Thatcher era

The Guardian - UK · Sep 18

Iranian state actors targeting UK dissidents, activists and journalists with spyware

Iranian agents used social engineering tricks such as fake MRI test results to lure victims in, the NCSC said

The Independent UK · Sep 15

The Undeclared War review – Simon Pegg’s cyber-attack thriller fails to push any of the right buttons

The rebooted GCHQ digital warfare series has more zip than its predecessor – but people bashing away on computers in a bunker near Cheltenham is inherently unsexy

The Guardian - UK · Jul 21

TV tonight: Simon Pegg’s cyber-thriller The Undeclared War returns

Siân Brooke and Adrian Lester also star in the tense GCHQ drama. Plus: hideous creations on the Great British Sewing Bee. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK · Jul 21

Half a million dead but just 40sqkm gained in six months: Impact of Putin’s devastating war in numbers

IN DEPTH: Russia’s advances in eastern Ukraine are slowing and hundreds of thousands of troops have been killed. As Kyiv seizes the upper hand, Alex Croft looks at the data that shows why Moscow is struggling

The Independent UK · Jul 2

Burnham’s No 10 North: could two-centre government be made to work?

Plan to move part of Whitehall to Manchester seems popular but would involve major logistical challenges and costs

The Guardian - UK · Jul 2

Russian soldiers ‘surviving average of 20 minutes when they reach frontline due to drone attacks’

GCHQ estimates that half a million Russian troops have been killed - and increasingly this due to drone warfare on the frontline

The Independent UK · Jun 30

NSA warns that cybercriminals are targeting this one critical component that the energy, chemical, food, agriculture, and transportation sectors rely on - here's what we know

ATG owners are urged to tighten up on security and keep track of potential attacks.

TechRadar · Jun 4

GCHQ debuts world-first AI cyber defense system to detect threats across critical national infrastructure, airlines, telecoms, and major companies

The UK wants to use AI to defend against Russia and China's "relentless attacks" on critical infrastructure.

TechRadar · May 28