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25 November 2020
NCSC Cyber Threat Report for 2019/20 released
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has released its Cyber Threat Report [PDF, 1.4 MB] for the 2019/20 reporting year.
Read more → 31 July 2020Response to the Office of the Inspector General of Intelligence and Security report on certain events in Afghanistan between 2009 and 2013
The Director-General of the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) Andrew Hampton says a report by the Office of the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security into the role of the GCSB and the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS) in relation to certain events in Afghanistan between 2009 and 2013 provides welcome oversight of the GCSB’s activities during this period.
Read more → 17 July 2020GCSB condemns targeting of COVID-19 vaccine development by cyber-actors
The Director-General of the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) Andrew Hampton is aware of the cyber-security advisory issued by the United Kingdom, United States and Canada regarding state sponsored malicious cyber activity targeting organisations involved in COVID-19 vaccine development.
Read more → 13 May 2020New Zealand condemns international cyber actors undermining the global response to COVID-19
New Zealand is speaking out against cyber actors taking advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to carry out malicious cyber activity.
Read more → 21 February 2020New Zealand condemns malicious cyber activity against Georgia
New Zealand has added its voice to international condemnation of a malicious cyber-attack against Georgia.
Read more → 27 September 2019Want to see inside the dome?
September 2019 is the 30th Anniversary of the GCSB’s satellite communications interception station at Waihopai in Marlborough.
Read more → 9 September 2019GCSB welcomes Inspector-General’s Report
The Director-General of the GCSB Andrew Hampton welcomes the finding by the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security that Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) had no direct involvement in the CIA’s detention and interrogation programme 2001 – 2009 and was not complicit in any unlawful conduct.
Read more → 27 August 2019Director-General remarks: Select Committee Inquiry into the 2017 General Election and 2016 Local Elections (August 2019)
The following is a submission by Director-General of Security NZSIS, Rebecca Kitteridge and Director-General of GCSB, Andrew Hampton to the Justice Select Committee Inquiry into the 2017 General Election and 2016 Local Elections.
Read more → 18 March 2019GCSB statement on the Christchurch terrorist attacks
The Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) welcomes the inquiry into the Christchurch terrorist attacks.
Read more → 21 December 2018Cyber campaign attributed to China
The Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) has established links between the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) and a global campaign of cyber-enabled commercial intellectual property theft. “This long-running campaign targeted the intellectual property and commercial data of a number of global managed service providers, some operating in New Zealand,” Director-General of the GCSB Andrew Hampton said.
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