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Former GCHQ intern risked national security after taking home top secret data
A former GCHQ intern has pleaded guilty to transferring data from a top-secret computer onto his work phone. Hassaan Arshad, who was arrested in 2022, is alleged to have downloaded the stolen data onto a hard drive connected to a personal computer. He pleaded guilty to a charge under Section 3ZA of the Computer Misuse Act 1990, which relates to…
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Businesses must get better at sharing cyber information, urges former GCHQ chief
The former head of GCHQ has warned businesses face increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks on critical national infrastructure (CNI), urging firms to pay closer attention to geopolitics and collaborate on fighting the next generation of threats. Jeremy Fleming, who served as director of the agency from 2017 to 2023, says the ‘big four’ – generally understood as China, Russia, North Korea,…
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