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    • Wednesday, 19 April, 2023
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      Why GCHQ’s first female director matters

      Women have a proven aptitude for codebreaking but after the second world war they were mostly overlooked

      Black and white photo of women codebreakers sitting at a long table with a man standing next to them
    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Wise Gals by Nathalia Holt — the female spies who came in from the cold

      Rich with detail, this gripping book charts the extraordinary bravery and professional barriers faced by women working in intelligence

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    • Thursday, 8 December, 2022
      FT Weekend’s best long reads of 2022
      Exclusive: The secret lives of MI6’s top female spies

      For the first time ever, SIS officers reveal why women often make the best spies for our times

      A woman views Westminster and the Big Ben across the Thames
    • Thursday, 7 July, 2022
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      Waiting on Washington and China’s unwitting hackers Premium content

      The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times

      Semiconductor chips on a circuit board
    • Saturday, 2 July, 2022
      News in-depthFT Investigations
      Chinese hackers kept up hiring drive despite FBI indictment

      Beijing-backed groups sought to recruit with job adverts from front companies that disguise nature of work

    • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
      Chinese politics & policy
      China lured graduate jobseekers into digital espionage

      FT investigation reveals student translators were targeted by front company for Beijing-backed hacking group APT40

      Montage of student wearing mortar board against Chinese flag
    • Friday, 4 March, 2022
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      General Sir Nick Carter: ‘Ukraine is a wake-up call’

      The former head of the UK’s armed forces on how the west can reach out to Russians — and counter Vladimir Putin

    • Wednesday, 26 January, 2022
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      The future of war

      Two books shed light on the evolution of conflict, from AI-directed ‘warbots’ to digital disinformation

    • Tuesday, 18 January, 2022
      Terrorism
      UK security services probed Texas hostage taker

      Investigation in 2020 concluded Briton did not present terror threat but critics question how he entered US

      The Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Coleyville, near Dallas, where Akram was shot on Saturday
    • Friday, 14 January, 2022
      Political espionage
      MI5 warns UK MPs against ‘political interference’ by Chinese agent

      Solicitor accused of facilitating donations to politicians and acting on behalf of China’s Communist party

      Christine Ching Kui Lee, right, and the Houses of Parliament in London
    • Monday, 20 December, 2021
      British Secret Intelligence Service
      The spies who struggle to love James Bond

      Despite his obvious failings, 007 highlights what the secret services are up against

      Daniel Craig stars as James Bond in ‘No Time to Die’. The benefits of Bond for Britain’s soft power, and the image of its spies as skilled, respected and omnipotent, is still a net positive
    • Saturday, 11 December, 2021
      Transcript
      Cyber power: a moment of reckoning

      UK spy chief says it is time to develop global standards fit for the digital world

    • Saturday, 11 December, 2021
      Cyber warfare
      UK spy chief raises fears over China’s digital renminbi

      GCHQ head warns technology could allow Beijing to monitor users and exert control over global currency transactions

      Sir Jeremy Fleming, head of Britain’s electronic intelligence agency
    • Saturday, 11 December, 2021
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      Cyber power: a moment of reckoning

      UK spy chief says it is time to develop global standards fit for the digital world

    • Tuesday, 30 November, 2021
      British Secret Intelligence Service
      MI6 chief warns of security threat from China ‘miscalculation’

      Richard Moore also raises concerns about Beijing’s ‘harvesting’ of data via surveillance technologies

      MI6 chief Richard Moore
    • Tuesday, 9 November, 2021
      Artificial intelligence
      Daniel Ek’s €1bn Europe tech investment group puts first stake in Helsing

      Defence start-up will use AI to build live battlefield maps in ‘ethical, responsible and transparent’ way

      Torsten Reil, left, chief executive of Helsing, with Gundbert Scherf, the start-up’s chief operating officer
    • Friday, 29 October, 2021
      Cyber Security
      Cybersecurity experts warn on UK spy deal with Amazon

      Concerns over privacy and national security risks come as MPs launch inquiry into cloud technologies

      The operations room inside GCHQ
    • Wednesday, 27 October, 2021
      FT CollectionsUK Budget autumn 2021: essential reading
      Government winners and losers in the UK budget

      Real-terms spending increases benefit some departments at the expense of others

      Montage of healthcare worker and sterling notes
    • Wednesday, 27 October, 2021
      UK Budget
      Sunak promises to restore 0.7% overseas aid spending

      But Treasury faces criticism over what items could be included to reach target

    • Monday, 25 October, 2021
      Cyber Security
      Amazon strikes deal with UK spy agencies to host top-secret material

      Cloud contract for GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 with US tech group aims to speed analysis but likely to ignite sovereignty fears

      The Cheltenham base of GCHQ
    • Monday, 25 October, 2021
      Cyber Security
      GCHQ to use new cyber force to hunt ransomware gangs

      UK intelligence agency chief plans to use offensive cyber campaigns when police cannot act

      A keyboard backlit in red
    • Friday, 22 October, 2021
      UK politics
      Secretive MoD ‘banking’ unit helps UK wage economic warfare

      Taskforce set up to disrupt Isis six years ago turns its attention to new ‘grey zone’ threats such as cyber

    • Monday, 18 October, 2021
      Terrorism in UK
      Johnson vows ‘evil’ will never defeat parliamentary democracy

      Prime minister announces Southend-on-Sea to be made a city as he leads tributes in Commons to Sir David Amess

      Prime minister Boris Johnson in the House of Commons
    • Saturday, 16 October, 2021
      UK politics
      Man held under Terrorism Act after killing of MP

      Police carry out searches in London following fatal stabbing of Sir David Amess

      A vigil for Sir David Amess in Leigh-on-Sea on Saturday
    • Friday, 1 October, 2021
      UK defence industry
      UK military chiefs battle to become next head of armed forces

      Top brass favour leader of cyber operations and special forces over high-profile sea lord

      Sir Mike Wigston , Defence Secretary Ben Wallace, Commodore Steve Moorhouse , UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson (2R) and First Sea Lord Admiral Tony Radakin
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