Latest Government Communications Headquarters Stories
Ultra Electronics AEP Networks launches the X-Kryptor PRIME product range at Infosecurity Europe 2013, Earls Court London on 23rd - 25th April. Loudwater, UK (PRWEB) April 22, 2013 AEP Networks, the leading supplier of CAPS Baseline and Enhanced Grade encryption products into UK government and defence networks, today announces the launch of the UK’s first implementation of GCHQ’s PRIME interoperability standard, the X-Kryptor PRIME. Part of the Ultra Encrypt family and an addition to...
Peter Suciu for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Breaking a code in a competition is usually something that could merit a disqualification, unless that competition happens to be in the field of code breaking. On Monday, it was announced a team from the City of London School has broken a code and in the process won a national competition, now in its 11th year. The event was organized by Southampton University with support from Britain's Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ)...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A World War II message found in a fireplace attached to the remains of a dead carrier pigeon is believed to have been decrypted. A Canadian World War II enthusiast says that he has deciphered the message after realizing that a code book held the key to the encryption. Gord Young, editor for the history group Lakefield Heritage Research, says the 1944 note uses a simple World War I code to give information about German troop positions...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online A coded message found attached to the remains of a D-Day military carrier pigeon may never be decoded, Britain’s top code-breakers say. The pigeon's skeleton was discovered in 1982 in the chimney of a 17th-century home in Surrey when the homeowner, a retired British probation officer named David Martin, was renovating the fireplace. The hand-written message was found in a red capsule still attached to the pigeon's leg bone....
OTTAWA, Oct. 29, 2012 /CNW/ - Cyber Security and Perimeter Security are critical components to our public safety and national security interests. It is not surprising, therefore, that these two issues are the priority topics for this year's SecureTech Conference and Trade Show taking place in Ottawa, October 30-31, 2012. SecureTech 2012 is presented by the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries (CADSI). Media must register in advance for accreditation. Visit the...
A 19-year-old U.K. student has been named the "Cyber Security Champion" after winning a competition showcasing Internet security intelligence. Jonathan Millican won the award after a six-month-long challenge designed to attract talented people to the cyberdefense industry. Judges at the competition said Millican had demonstrated knowledge "years beyond his time" of the subject. He won the competition after taking part in a final series of challenges hosted by HP Labs, which pitted...
In a bid to recruit young, cyber-savvy talent, Britain’s intelligence agency GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) has recently introduced a code-cracking competition via a somewhat unconventional medium. In contrast to the traditional ‘top-down’ recruitment strategy—which included combing the campuses of elite universities like Oxford and Cambridge for brainy, young James Bonds— the security organization’s administration is attempting to attract talent using a variety...
The United Kingdom has suffered a series of “disturbing” cyber attacks, including a recent serious, yet unsuccessful, assault on the Foreign Office’s network, Iain Lobban, the director of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), said on Monday. GCHQ, the UK’s spy agency similar to the National Security Agency in the US, handles operations such as intelligence-gathering and code-busting and is the heart of Britain’s cyber defenses. Lobban told British newspaper, The...
Tabernus Software Approved as Certified Data Erasure Solution by CESG Austin, TX (PRWEB) June 18, 2011 Tabernus, leader in data erasure solutions, announced today that the Communications-Electronics Security Group (CESG) which is part of the UK Government Communications Headquarters, has certified the latest version of Tabernus' data erasure software, Enterprise Erase v5.3. Certification is awarded when software has met all of the criteria for secure erasure of magnetic media in...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Cellcrypt (www.cellcrypt.com), the leading provider of encrypted cell phone voice calling, today announced that the latest version of Cellcrypt Mobile 5.5, for both BlackBerry® Bold 9000 and Nokia E71 smartphones, has been awarded the CESG Claims Tested Mark (CCTM) certification. Head of the CCTM Secretariat (ISC) Peter Hayes was delighted to make the award to Cellcrypt. "Our new category of Mobile and Remote Working products at CCTM continues to...
