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• UK Cyber Security Council Launches Opening Initiatives

  30-06-2021 19:12
  UK Cyber Security Council Launches Opening InitiativesThe UK Cyber Security Council has launched its first two initiatives as part of its remit to boost professional standards in the cyber industry.The council, which started work as an independent body on March 31 2021, has invited 16 members of the Cyber Security Alliance to apply for a role in determining the terms of reference for two new committees: a Professional Standards & Ethics Committee and a Qualifications & Car
  
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• The week in audio: Today; Don’t Cross Kat; Dying for Sex; Inside Counter Terrorism Policing – review

  05-04-2025 18:00
  
  Go-getting Anna Foster joins the BBC’s flagship show. Elsewhere, the story of a Brazilian scammer, a moving podcast about love and death, and an insider’s guide to tracking down terroristsToday (BBC Radio 4)
  Don’t Cross Kat (Wondery)
  Dying for Sex (Wondery)
  Inside Counter Terrorism Policing (Counter Terrorism Policing)It’s Monday 31 March, Anna Foster’s first day as a Today presenter, and she’s not in W1. She’s in Thailand, in Mae Sot, on the border with
  
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• UK police chiefs draw up plans for national counter-terrorism force

  05-04-2025 08:00
  
  Exclusive: Changes could mark biggest overhaul of policing since the 1960sPlans for a new national police body to lead the fight against terrorism and serious organised crime are being drawn up, as UK police chiefs consider the biggest overhaul of policing since the 1960s.Under the proposals, counter-terrorism policing units would gain independence from local forces and become part of a new force covering at least England and Wales, and sitting in a newly created national centre for policing. Co
  
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• Prince Andrew wrote birthday letters to Xi Jinping, ex-adviser told court

  04-04-2025 19:56
  Released court statement says alleged Chinese spy helped draft private letters to Chinese presidentThe Duke of York sent letters directly to China’s president, the prince’s former senior adviser told a special immigration tribunal, with an alleged Chinese spy advising him on how to write them.Dominic Hampshire, who worked for Andrew from 2019-22, said Andrew had “always had a communication channel” with Xi Jinping that was “accepted” and may even have been enc
  
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• Stranger than fiction MI5 tales revealed in first National Archives collaboration

  02-04-2025 07:38
  From Guy Burgess’s briefcase to microdots secreted in talc, an exhibition reveals remarkable items from the agency’s archives – and the extraordinary stories behind themThe agency that would become MI5, originally known as the Secret Service Bureau, employed just 17 staff in 1914; by the end of the first world war, the number working for Britain’s domestic counter-intelligence agency had swelled to 850, including a number of female administrators.While valuable for managi
  
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• Ex-GCHQ intern admits risking national security with data breach

  31-03-2025 15:48
  Hasaan Arshad, 25, allegedly transferred data from a top-secret work station to his work mobile phoneA former intern at GCHQ has pleaded guilty to risking national security after he took secret data home.Hasaan Arshad, 25, from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, who appeared in the dock wearing a dark grey suit, a white shirt and a dark brown tie, admitted an offence under the Computer Misuse Act on what would have been the first day of his trial at the Old Bailey. Continue reading...
  
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• Prevent chief departs after damning inquiry over Southport attack

  28-03-2025 17:48
  Michael Stewart had led counter-terrorism programme since 2020, and reviews exposed its basic failures The head of the government’s controversial counter-terrorism programme Prevent is leaving his position after a damning inquiry revealed the strategy’s failures in relation to the Southport attack.Michael Stewart had spearheaded the programme – which aims to to stop people from becoming involved in or supporting terrorism – since September 2020. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘A clever agent’: notes from ‘watchers’ of spy Kim Philby made public for first time

  22-03-2025 17:00
  
  A new exhibition at the National Archives in London will reveal the extent of MI5 operation to expose the British double agent who was also Observer reporterSecret surveillance of Britain’s ­notorious double agent, Kim Philby, made public for the first time in archived documents, reveals how keenly the Security Service wanted to confirm or disprove early suspicions of his high-level treachery.In daily bulletins submitted to MI5 in November 1951, undercover operatives describe how Philb
  
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• Trump, Hegseth Announce Air Force’s Next Generation Fighter Platform

  21-03-2025 23:20 via defencetalk.com
  
  DefenceTalkDuring a press conference at the White House today, President Donald J. Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the Air Force would proceed with the production of the Next Generation Air Dominance fighter jet platform. Intended to eventually replace the Air Force’s fleet of F-22 Raptors, the NGAD platform is a network-connected family […]https://www.defencetalk.com/trump-hegseth-announce-air-forces-next-generation-fighter-platform-80553/
  
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• Yemen’s Huthis claim US aircraft carrier attacksnullnullnull

  17-03-2025 12:16 via defencetalk.com
  
  DefenceTalkYemen’s Iran-backed Huthi rebels said they attacked an American aircraft carrier group twice within 24 hours as they prepared for huge rallies on Monday after US strikes left dozens dead. The response from the Huthis follows attacks on Saturday ordered by President Donald Trump that hammered the rebel-held capital, Sanaa, and several other areas, killing […]https://www.defencetalk.com/yemens-huthis-claim-us-aircraft-carrier-attacks-80549/
  
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• Yemen’s Huthis claim US aircraft carrier attacks

  17-03-2025 12:16 via defencetalk.com
  
  DefenceTalkYemen’s Iran-backed Huthi rebels said they attacked an American aircraft carrier group twice within 24 hours as they prepared for huge rallies on Monday after US strikes left dozens dead. The response from the Huthis follows attacks on Saturday ordered by President Donald Trump that hammered the rebel-held capital, Sanaa, and several other areas, killing […]https://www.defencetalk.com/yemens-huthis-claim-us-aircraft-carrier-attacks-80549/
  
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• Colombia warns Trump against drug blacklisting

  17-03-2025 12:13 via defencetalk.com
  
  DefenceTalkColombia’s defense minister on Sunday warned Donald Trump’s administration against blacklisting his country for failing to curb drug exports, saying the decision would bring yet more cocaine to the United States. Washington is currently weighing whether to “decertify” Colombia as a partner in the battle against drugs, a move that could restrict millions in US […]https://www.defencetalk.com/colombia-warns-trump-against-drug-blacklisting-80545/
  
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• A spy ring – and a love triangle – podcast

  14-03-2025 04:00
  Dan Sabbagh reports on three Bulgarian nationals found guilty of spying for Russia in a string of plots around EuropeOn Friday, three UK-based Bulgarian nationals accused of spying for Russia were found guilty of espionage charges at the Old Bailey in London.“It begins with a simple request,” Dan Sabbagh, the Guardian’s defence and security editor, tells Michael Safi. “A request from one of the world’s most wanted men.” Continue reading...
  
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• Decision not to classify Southport killer as a terrorist was right, says UK watchdog

  13-03-2025 01:01
  
  Review concluded extending definition to cover extreme violence by ‘loners’ such as Axel Rudakubana is unhelpfulThe decision not to classify Axel Rudakubana as a terrorist following the Southport murders was right because it would be unhelpful to stretch the definition of terrorism to cover all extreme violence, the UK’s terror watchdog has concluded.Jonathan Hall KC wrote that the “legal definition of terrorism is already wide and should not be changed any further”
  
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• Apple to appeal against UK government data demand at secret high court hearing

  12-03-2025 20:52
  Guardian understands tech company’s appeal against Home Office request for encrypted data is to be heard by tribunal on FridayApple’s appeal against a UK government demand to access its customers’ highly encrypted data will be the subject of a secret high court hearing, the Guardian understands.The appeal on Friday will be considered by the investigatory powers tribunal, an independent court that has the power to investigate claims that the UK intelligence services have acted u
  
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• EU chief calls for defense ‘surge’, says ‘time of illusions’ over

  11-03-2025 12:36 via defencetalk.com
  
  DefenceTalkEU chief Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday called for a “surge” in European defense spending, as the 27-nation bloc faces an aggressive Russia and faltering US support. Addressing lawmakers in Strasbourg, von der Leyen said Europe’s security order was “being shaken,” suggesting the continent could no longer rely on “America’s full protection”. “The time […]https://www.defencetalk.com/eu-chief-calls-for-defense-surge-says-time-
  
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• Moscow targeted by ‘massive’ Ukrainian drone attack

  11-03-2025 12:26 via defencetalk.com
  
  DefenceTalkUkraine targeted Moscow in a “massive” overnight drone attack, authorities said Tuesday, with Russia’s defense ministry claiming it shot down 337 UAVs across the country. “The Defense Ministry’s air defense continues to repel a massive attack by enemy drones on Moscow,” mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Telegram early Tuesday. Russia’s military shot down 91 drones […]https://www.defencetalk.com/moscow-targeted-by-massive-ukrainian-drone-att
  
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• MI5 officers lamented lack of guidance in child terrorism cases, emails reveal

  07-03-2025 18:54
  
  Officer who investigated Rhianan Rudd, who killed herself, tells inquest ‘wider conversation’ needed on such casesMI5 officers investigating a schoolgirl who went on to kill herself after being charged with far-right terror offences had complained of a lack of guidance on handling the growing number of such cases, according to internal emails heard at an inquest.A special evidence session in London heard that intelligence agents working on the case of Rhianan Rudd, who died at the ag
  
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• Three UK-based Bulgarians found guilty of spying for Russia

  07-03-2025 18:09
  
  Jury convicts Katrin Ivanova, Vanya Gaberova and Tihomir Ivanchev over alleged plots around EuropeThe spymaster, the ringleader and the ‘minions’: who’s who of the spy ring trial‘Dumbest thing I’ve ever done’: spy trial’s tales of scheming, bluster and a love triangleThree Bulgarian nationals accused of spying for Russia have been found guilty of espionage charges in a trial that heard how they were involved in a string of plots around Europe directed by
  
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• Starmer welcomes Zelenskyy’s offer to work with Trump on Ukraine peace deal – as it happened

  04-03-2025 18:57
  PM says any deal must be ‘lasting and secure’ following fiery Trump-Zelenskyy meeting last week and UK weekend summit. This live blog is closedLisa O’Carroll is the Guardian’s acting Ireland correspondent.Michelle O’Neill, Northern Ireland’s first minister, has described a decision to build thousands of lightweight missiles for Ukraine in a Belfast factory as “incredulous”.I find it really incredulous that at a time when public services are being c
  
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• Extreme online violence may be linked to rise of ‘0 to 100’ killers, experts say

  01-03-2025 09:00
  Criminal justice specialists call for new approach to identify emerging type of murderer with no prior convictionsThe rise of “0 to 100” killers who go from watching torture, mutilation and beheading videos in their bedrooms to committing murder suggests there could be a link between extreme violence online and in real life, experts have said.Criminal justice experts advocated a new approach, inspired by counter-terrorism, to identify an emerging type of murderer with no prior convic
  
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• UK teenager who killed herself after terror charges ‘was groomed by neo-Nazi’

  27-02-2025 20:29
  Rhianan Rudd, 16, was referred to Prevent by her mother after becoming ‘fixated on Hitler’, inquest toldA teenager who killed herself after becoming the youngest person in the UK to be charged with terror offences had been groomed online by an American “neo-Nazi”, an inquest has been told.Sixteen-year-old Rhianan Rudd, who was autistic, had been referred to the government’s Prevent counter-radicalisation programme by her mother, Emily Carter, the counsel to the inqu
  
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• My wife has put me in the Doge house | Brief letters

  24-02-2025 18:08
  Department of Government Efficiency | White House media | Dictators | Winston Churchill | Trump in Ukraine | Come again?My wife has just said that unless I can give her a list of five accomplishments I’ve achieved last week I can forget lunch; a non-response and I’m out of here (Kash Patel tells FBI staff to ignore Elon Musk request to list their achievements, 23 February).
  John Bailey
  St Albans, Hertfordshire• Perhaps MI6 could smuggle copies of the Guardian into the White Hous
  
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• Coroner to refer findings on 1992 shooting of four IRA members to DPP

  20-02-2025 13:45
  
  Justice Michael Humphreys says he is obliged to send report of Northern Ireland SAS ambush A coroner who ruled that SAS soldiers were not justified in killing four IRA members in a 1992 ambush in Northern Ireland is to refer his findings to the director of public prosecutions.Justice Michael Humphreys’ decision is likely to reignite last week’s row in the House of Commons, when unionists and Conservative MPs said his ruling earlier this month concluding that the deaths were unwarrant
  
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• Canadian warship in Taiwan Strait ‘undermines peace’, says China

  17-02-2025 13:35 via defencetalk.com
  
  DefenceTalkA Canadian warship passing through the Taiwan Strait “undermines peace” in the sensitive waterway, China’s military said Monday. Beijing views self-ruled Taiwan as part of its territory and claims jurisdiction over the body of water that separates the island from the Chinese mainland. The Canadian vessel passed through the strait on Sunday and was the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/canadian-warship-in-taiwan-strait-undermines-peace-says-china-80528/
  
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• Chatbot vs national security? Why DeepSeek is raising concerns

  17-02-2025 13:30 via defencetalk.com
  
  DefenceTalkChinese AI chatbot DeepSeek upended the global industry and wiped billions off US tech stocks when it unveiled its R1 program, which it claims was built on cheap, less sophisticated Nvidia semiconductors. But governments from Rome to Seoul are cracking down on the user-friendly Chinese app, saying they need to prevent potential leaks of sensitive […]https://www.defencetalk.com/chatbot-vs-national-security-why-deepseek-is-raising-concerns-80523/
  
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• Taiwan detects 24 Chinese aircraft as Canadian ship transits waters

  17-02-2025 13:11 via defencetalk.com
  
  DefenceTalkTaiwan said it detected 24 Chinese military aircraft near the island on Sunday as a Canadian warship passed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait. It was the first Canadian naval vessel to transit the waterway this year, Taiwan’s foreign ministry said, and came days after two US ships made the passage. The United States and its […]https://www.defencetalk.com/taiwan-detects-24-chinese-aircraft-as-canadian-ship-transits-waters-80532/
  
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• ‘You don’t see the trauma until suddenly you do’: Lockerbie bombing’s lasting impact on a ‘normal little town’

  16-02-2025 15:09
  
  Ongoing trials, documentaries and dramatisations mean the Scottish town remains in the spotlight, willingly or notAt the end of a row of tidy redbrick bungalows in the Scottish town of Lockerbie is an empty plot, carefully landscaped now as a memorial garden. Two red tartan ribbons, tied on a leafless branch perhaps in private remembrance, flutter in a wintry gust.Eleven of the street’s residents died when the wing section of Pan Am 103 crashed into Sherwood Crescent with the force of a me
  
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• MI5 gave courts false evidence about ‘abusive’ neo-Nazi agent, judge rules

  12-02-2025 20:24
  
  Informant on far right was alleged to have attacked his partner but claimed his status put him above the lawA high court judge has found that MI5 gave false evidence to three courts as it faced scrutiny over its handling of a neo-Nazi agent alleged to have attacked his partner.The government has ordered an inquiry to determine whether the false information was deliberate and therefore a lie, or an innocent mistake, as the Security Service has told ministers it was. Continue reading...
  
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• Starmer ‘not telling truth’ over Gaza family asylum decision, claims Badenoch, after PMQs clash – as it happened

  12-02-2025 18:19
  
  Opposition leader says PM was wrong when he said that the decision was taken under the last governmentAfter PMQs there will be an urgent question in the Commons, tabled by the Lib Dem MP Christine Jardine, on “the potential security implications of the involvement of Chinese companies including Mingyang in energy infrastructure projects”. After that Dan Jarvis, the security minister, will make a statement to mark the publication of the report into Prevent’s dealings with Ali Ha
  
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