The Latest Breaking News from GCHQ

The U.K. has named the first woman to head its communications intelligence agency

Britain named Anne Keast-Butler as the first female director of its intelligence communications agency GCHQ on Tuesday, tasked with protecting the country from terrorists, cyber-criminals and malign foreign powers.

GCHQ chief says Britain ‘must be able to contest and compete with adversaries in cyberspace’

National Cyber Force says it is engaged in ways to ‘undermine tradecraft’ of Russian, Chinese and other state-sponsored hackers

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A man accused of trying to murder a “US spy” who worked at GCHQ is set to stand trial later this year, the Old Bailey heard on Friday.

Joshua Bowles, 29, is accused of punching and stabbing the woman at a leisure centre three miles from the UK intelligence agency’s Cheltenham base.

Manchester firms are less likely than those in the rest of the UK to have a cyber incident response plan in place

Joshua Bowles, 29, was allegedly armed with two knives during the incident. He is also charged with assaulting a man who tried to intervene