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• Posted July 31, 2020
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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.

• Posted July 17, 2020
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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.

• Posted May 13, 2020
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New Zealand is speaking out against cyber actors taking advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to carry out malicious cyber activity.

• Posted February 21, 2020
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New Zealand has added its voice to international condemnation of a malicious cyber-attack against Georgia.

• Posted September 27, 2019
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September 2019 is the 30^th Anniversary of the GCSB’s satellite communications interception station at Waihopai in Marlborough.

• Posted September 09, 2019
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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.

• Posted August 27, 2019
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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.

• Posted March 18, 2019
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The Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) welcomes the inquiry into the Christchurch terrorist attacks.

• Posted December 21, 2018
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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.

• Posted December 18, 2018
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The State Services Commission has published the report of its Inquiry into the use of External Security Consultants.