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Can you solve the GCHQ Christmas puzzle? Answer these seven questions from the spy agency

The spy agency's "Chief Puzzler" said the notoriously tricky puzzles are designed to test "the same blend of skills our teams use every day to keep the country safe”

Evening Standard

Can you solve GCHQ’s Christmas puzzle?

GCHQ has come up with a range of puzzles designed to test a range of problem-solving skills

The Independent UK

Christmas code-crackers: GCHQ reveals annual festive card for puzzle fans

Seven brainteasers feature in intelligence agency’s 2025 Christmas card, with covers designed by UK school pupils

The Guardian - UK

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‘Attacks will get through’: head of GCHQ urges companies to do more to fight cybercrime

Anne Keast-Butler says government and business must to work together to tackle future attacks as AI makes cybercrime easier

The Guardian - UK

UK at Risk: GCHQ Sounds Alarm as Cyber Threats Spike 50%

GCHQ's NCSC warns cyberattacks in the UK have surged 50% in 2025, urging businesses and the population in general to boost defences as major incidents have drained finances.

International Business Times UK

Cyber-attacks rise by 50% in past year, UK security agency says

Officials say increased dependence on technology leaves society more vulnerable to threats such as ransomware

The Guardian - UK

A British spy was found dead and stuffed inside a bag. It’s ruled as an accident

Gareth Williams was found in a hold all bag with a padlock on the outside.

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How GCHQ announced end of war to codebreakers at Bletchley Park

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The Independent UK

Newly released letters offer glimpse into lives of WWII codebreakers

Workers were granted unexpected holidays as victory over Japan neared

The Independent UK

Who is Blaise Metreweli, first female head of Britain’s MI6?

A spook for over a quarter of a century, Metreweli was ‘Q’ at the spy agency. Now she’ll be known as ‘C’. Here’s why.

Al Jazeera

Britain's MI6 appoints Blaise Metreweli as its first female chief in 116-year history

Blaise Metreweli, a Cambridge graduate who has worked in the intelligence service since 1999, will become the organisation's 18th leader.

Euronews

Blaise Metreweli named as first woman to lead UK intelligence service MI6

Metreweli, 47, has held series of director-level roles in foreign intelligence service and in domestic agency MI5

The Guardian - UK

GCHQ intern jailed over data breach which risked exposing 17 colleagues

Manchester University computer science student Hasaan Arshad, 25, pleaded guilty to an offence under the Computer Misuse Act.

Evening Standard

GCHQ intern risked exposing 17 colleagues when he took data home, court told

Hasaan Arshad used his mobile phone to transfer confidential information to his own computer, the Old Bailey heard

The Independent UK

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Trial date set for former civil servant accused of lying about GCHQ role

Ifthikhar Alam, 25, appeared at Southwark Crown Court on Thursday charged with three counts of fraud by false representation

The Independent UK

Spy letters show secret orders sent ahead of VE Day

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The Independent UK

GCHQ release cache of spy chatter discussing VE Day before end of war announced

The documents released from GCHQ’s archives mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day.

The Independent UK

Never-before-see spy letters reveal GCHQ role in VE Day before end of war

The messages relay that the German high command had signed an ‘unconditional surrender’

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Evening Standard

Former civil servant, 25, denies lying about being GCHQ intelligence analyst

Ifthikhar Alam is also charged with fraud over allegedly lying about being the Cabinet Office’s ‘Head of Western Balkans’.

Evening Standard

British Army and Royal Navy 'hit by cyberattacks from pro-Russian and pro-Palestinian hackers'

The group, known as the Holy League, is said to be made up of around 90 hacktivist collectives united by opposition to Western liberal values

The Independent UK

Bletchley Park codebreaker and trailblazer for women dead at 101

Charlotte ‘Betty’ Webb died on Monday, the Women’s Royal Army Corps Association said.

The Guardian - UK

Ex-GCHQ intern admits risking national security with data breach

Hasaan Arshad, 25, allegedly transferred data from a top-secret work station to his work mobile phone

Evening Standard

Former GCHQ intern admits top secret data breach risking national security

Hasaan Arshad took his work mobile phone into a top secret area of GCHQ and connected the device to a top secret work station, it was alleged.

The Independent UK

The most important intelligence sharing network in the west is being ruined by America - here’s how

ANALYSIS: The vital Five Eyes intelligence sharing system is being undermined by US incompetence, as revealed by the Signal messaging scandal in Washington, World affairs editor Sam Kiley writes

The Guardian - UK

Energy secretary orders investigation into Heathrow disruption – as it happened

Miliband said he wanted ‘to understand any wider lessons to be learned on energy resilience for critical national infrastructure’

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