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The Weekly Round-Up: 10.07.09
Round-Up Despite the best attempts of the political correctness lobby, appearance and image are very important, especially to middle-aged men working in corporate IT. Yes, personality counts but unless you've got a lot of stickers on your side... [10 Jul 2009]
Britain to get official cyber attack dogs
News The UK government has announced that it is to form a cyber security agency, one of whose functions will be to develop a cyber attack capability. The Office of Cyber Security (OCS), dedicated to protecting Britain's IT infrastructure,... [25 Jun 2009]
"We must not allow ourselves to become a Big Brother society"
News Both the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties have attacked the UK government over the retention of travel data. The government plans to retain all travel data for everyone entering and leaving the country in a centralised database... [10 Feb 2009]
Photos: Take a tour through BT's 'secret WWII tunnels'
Photo Welcome to the Kingsway Tunnel, 100 feet below the streets of Holborn. The tunnels are shown above being constructed in the 1940s. During their 60-year history, they have played home to the Post Office and MI6. [20 Oct 2008]
BT to sell off 'secret World War II tunnels'
News BT is looking for a new buyer for its "secret World War II tunnels". The mile-long Kingsway Tunnels have a chequered history, starting off life in the early 1940s as air raid shelter designed to hold 8,000 people and later briefly taken... [16 Oct 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 03.10.08
Round-Up The name's Round-Up. Weekly Round-Up. In the past, the MI6 used to recruit spies by tracking students with the right 'qualifications' as they made their way through the country's top universities: Oxford, Cambridge or... [03 Oct 2008]
Photos: GCHQ aims to recruit with in-game ads
Photo The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has launched what it claims is the world's first in-game recruitment advertising campaign. Job ads will appear in real world scenarios - such as billboard and street advertising - in a... [23 Oct 2007]
Revealed: 439,000 snooping requests made
News UK security and law enforcement agencies made nearly 439,000 requests to monitor people's phone calls, emails and post during a 15-month period, the spying watchdog has revealed. But nearly 4,000 errors in requests were also reported... [21 Feb 2007]
Techies wanted for 007 jobs
News MI6, the intelligence agency for overseas operations, is looking to recruit IT and technology experts to gather data and spy on computers in other countries. An advert appeared in Thursday's Times newspaper as part of... [28 Apr 2006]
007 wannabes wanted
News The overseas intelligence service MI6 has launched a new website to enlist recruits - so would-be 007s can now sign up online. The website contains the history of the organisation, officially known as the Secret... [13 Oct 2005]
Cheat Sheet: Freedom of Information Act 2000
Cheat Sheet Another law. What's this one about then? The Freedom of Information Act 2000 is designed to give people easy access to information from public sector organisations, such as central and local government, emergency services, and health and... [12 Sep 2005]
Secret MI6 agents have cover blown online
News The Foreign Office has slammed a privacy activist who has named online over 200 alleged UK spies and secret agents. New York-based activist John Young has named 276 alleged MI6 agents - including former Liberal Democrat... [30 Aug 2005]
UK spooks use web to tackle terror threat against businesses
News UK secret intelligence agency MI5 has overhauled its online presence with a website aimed at helping businesses counter the threat of terrorism. MI5 is the agency responsible for national security (as opposed to spooks in the... [30 Apr 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up:19.09.03
Comment Apple Computer, which is famous for making cute, funky computers and Apple Corps, which is the company behind the Beatles, who are famous for their cute, funky pop songs, have a long and colourful history of litigation behind them. [19 Sep 2003]
Laptop security: What you need to know
Comment Explaining a lost laptop to your boss is one thing, explaining just which files have fallen into someone else's grubby mitts quite another. But there are plenty of ways to guard against security breaches, as Pia Heikkila explains. [23 Apr 2002]
