GCHQ

In the latest unsurprising privacy news, it appears that the NSA and the UK’s GCHQ spied on people who viewed the WikiLeaks website.

British Spies Have Attacked Anonymous With DDoS

New documents leaked by Edward Snowden and obtained by NBC News suggest that the UK’s spy agency, GCHQ, launched a DDoS attack on the hacker collectives Anonymous and LulzSec. A presentation allegedly from a 2012 NSA conference points out that GCHQ’s Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG) launched a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack…

The NSA Spies on You Even When You Play Angry Birds

Newly published slides from the NSA and its UK counterpart GCHQ show that the spy agencies delight in scooping up data from “leaky” smartphone apps. That means that you’re being watched when you do everything from playing Angry Birds to uploading Facebook photos. What kinds of data, you wonder? Just about everything actually. Using all…

Report: The NSA Has Undercover World of Warcraft Agents

For the NSA, you real life isn’t enough. No, as well as reading your emails and monitoring your phone calls, its agents have been deployed inside MMORPGs like World of Warcraft and Second Life, as well as Xbox Live. A briefing uncovered by the Guardian reveals that the NSA—and its UK sister agency GCHQ—have infiltrated…

British Spy Agency Is Saving Everyone’s Email and Calls Too

Thanks to more classified documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, The Guardian is now reporting that a British spy agency has tapped into trans-Atlantic fiber optic cables, allowing them access to everything from email and Facebook messages to internet search histories and phone calls. Which they gather indiscriminately. Oh, and they’re sharing it with…

Crack an Online Puzzle and You Could Become a Real-Life James Bond

Britain’s intelligence service, GCHQ, is recruiting. But it wants its newest spies to be tech-savvy, so it’s inviting home-grown hackers to crack a puzzle on its new website in order to apply for a job. The UK’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) works closely with MI5 and MI6, and usually recruits its spies straight outta college.…

MI5 Is Now On the Hunt For British BBMers

As the saga of London rioting and social media blocking continues, the British government is calling in the spooks. They’re now summoning MI5 and GCHQ to help not block but track the messages that might be the root of the trouble. Christ. As if Prime Minister David Cameron’s plan to block social networking wasn’t enough,…