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• China says US must change 'mistaken policies' before deal on cyber security

  19 Oct 2014: Top Chinese official tells Kerry ‘positive action’ needed but FBI this week accused China of hacking US companies

• Theresa May defends culture of secrecy over mass snooping

  16 Oct 2014: Home secretary tells intelligence and security committee harvesting communications data is not invasion of privacy

• David Greenglass, spy who sent sister Ethel Rosenberg to electric chair, dies

  15 Oct 2014: Sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, executed for passing atomic secrets to Russia, announce death of estranged uncle
  

• Russian hackers suspected of Kremlin ties used Windows bug ‘to spy on west’

  14 Oct 2014: Cyber-threat intelligence firm iSight says ‘Sandworm Team’ used unknown bugs from 2009 to steal EU and Nato documents

• UK intelligence agencies need stronger oversight, says David Blunkett

  14 Oct 2014: Former home secretary tells Commons committee continued secrecy is undermining public confidence in wake of Snowden revelations

• US taking 'close look' at Waldorf Astoria hotel sale to Chinese company

  13 Oct 2014: Officials have said the sale could have implications for the government’s longstanding relationship with the hotel

• Citizenfour review – Poitras' victorious film shows Snowden vindicated

  

  11 Oct 2014: Laura Poitras’ documentary disentangles NSA surveillance and plots the story of Edward Snowden in Hong Kong and Moscow

• Police concede allegations over attempts to turn activists into informers are “serious”

  6 Oct 2014: An investigation has been launched into claims that activists felt intimidated by police who wanted them to spy on other campaigners
  

• Detention without charge: MPs complain of inadequate time to review laws

  3 Oct 2014: Deputy chair of Australia’s intelligence oversight committee says group doesn’t have capacity to examine ‘intrusive powers’

• Anthony Horowitz is writing new James Bond novel from Ian Fleming idea

  2 Oct 2014: Alison Flood: Murder on Wheels, the first novel to be adapted from an original Ian Fleming treatment since his death, may see Bond foil Russian plans to scupper a Formula One race in the 50s

• Israel’s Mossad comes in from the cold in search for new recruits

  29 Sep 2014: Israel’s infamous spy agency drops secretive cloak-and-dagger approach and goes online to seek out potential agents

• The Coalition's national security laws herald a new era in the Australian security state

  29 Sep 2014: Suelette Dreyfus: Australia’s draconian new national security laws fundamentally threaten our open society. Coalition backbenchers must listen to the community where the attorney general will not

• Barack Obama says Syria is 'ground zero for jihadists around the world'

  28 Sep 2014: In interview to be broadcast by CBS on Sunday, president says US underestimated Isis and overestimated Iraqi army

• The internet has changed everything – and nothing

  26 Sep 2014: Deborah Orr: In the real world people still torture and kill each other, all that’s changed is that they post it online

• From the archive, 25 September 1971: Britain expels 90 Russian diplomat spies

  25 Sep 2014: Originally published in the Guardian on 25 September 1971: The Foreign Office is to expel 90 Soviet diplomats who have been spying for Russia, after a KGB defector revealed sabotage plans

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