Latest William Hague Stories

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...

The Financial Times reported on Friday that Britain is calling for countries to agree on rules for "acceptable behavior" in cyberspace during a time of concern about what is seen as a growing security threat. FT reported that William Hague, U.K. foreign secretary, will offer to host a conference in London this year "to lay the basis for a set of standards on how countries should act in cyberspace."According to the report, Hague gives three examples of attacks on British...