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The deceptively tricky tasks require ingenuity and perseverance, GCHQ said. The 2024 card also includes extra layers for those who want to challenge themselves further, with additional elements ...
Ms Keast-Butler said: “Puzzles have always been at the heart of GCHQ, and the skills needed to solve them are just as relevant in 2024 as they were over 100 years ago.
Still scratching your head over this year's GCHQ Christmas challenge? This year the public has been challenged to decode the names of UK landmarks, testing skills including codebreaking, maths and ...
The Christmas Challenge has run every year since 2008. It provides special awards for the best performing charities; in 2017 the overall winner was Aurora Orchestra. [18] As of 2024, the Christmas Challenge accounts for around 75% of the £284 million raised by The Big Give. [19]
GCHQ have set a number of cryptic online challenges to the public, used to attract interest and for recruitment, starting in late 1999. [123] [124] The response to the 2004 challenge was described as "excellent", [125] and the challenge set in 2015 had over 600,000 attempts. [126]
Robert Peter Hannigan CMG (born 1965) is a cybersecurity specialist who has been Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, since 2021.He was a senior British civil servant who previously served as the director of the signals intelligence and cryptography agency the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and established the UK's National Cyber Security Centre. [1]
GCHQ, the UK’s largest intelligence agency, has sent out its annual Christmas card, complete with a set of puzzles aimed at Britain’s youngest minds. UK spy agency GCHQ reveals its Christmas ...
Educated at The John Lyon School, Marychurch served in the Royal Air Force immediately after the Second World War and then joined GCHQ in 1948. [2] According to the memoirs of a former MI5 intelligence officer, in the 1960s, Marychurch, then a young GCHQ cryptanalyst, applied computerised cluster analysis to the problem of traffic analysis of espionage traffic. [3]