About Ciaran Martin
Ciaran Liam Martin is the first CEO of the National Cyber Security Centre. Prior to joining GCHQ in February 2014, Ciaran was Constitution Director at the Cabinet Office from 2011, helping to agree the framework for the Scottish independence referendum.
Braverman and Facebook clash over private message plans
... Ciaran Martin, the former head of the National Cyber Security Centre, has previously told the BBC that scanning for child abuse content in encrypted messaging apps would involve processes that could undermine privacy for all users...
MoveIt hack: What action can data-breach victims take?
... " The important message to organisations right now is not to panic, to install the security patch and not to pay the criminals, " former National Cyber Security Centre lead Prof Ciaran Martin says...
Minister attacks Meta boss over Facebook message encryption plan
... Ciaran Martin, the former head of the National Cyber Security Centre, told Today that: " Essentially it s building a door that doesn t currently exist, not into the encrypted messaging app but into devices, which could be used or misused by people who aren t interested in protecting children for more nefarious purposes...
Timeline of dissident republican activity
... Craigavon man Ciaran Martin Collins, 35, from Drumbeg, was charged with having a semi-automatic pistol in suspicious circumstances after being arrested in a car in Lurgan...
Royal Mail overseas parcels ban 'costing me hundreds of pounds'
... " Takes time to resolve Despite customers frustration, Ciaran Martin, professor at University of Oxford and former chief of the National Cyber Security Centre, told the BBC that Royal Mail was " not being unusually slow"...
Royal Mail: Overseas post still disrupted after 'cyber incident'
... Ciaran Martin, a professor at the University of Oxford and former chief of the National Cyber Security Centre, told the BBC he believed the " incident" was down to " malicious activity"...
Scottish independence: Will indyref2 be a re-run of 2014?
... But Ciaran Martin, the former senior UK civil servant who negotiated the Edinburgh Agreement which formed the basis for the 2014 referendum, now professor of government at Oxford University, draws a distinction between the political argument for Scottish self-determination and the legal case...
UK warned to bolster defences against cyber attacks as Russia threatens Ukraine
... " If the aim is to conquer Ukraine, you don t do that with computers, " says Ciaran Martin, who ran NCSC until 2020 - an arm of the UK s intelligence, security and cyber agency, GCHQ...
Royal Mail: Overseas post still disrupted after 'cyber incident'
People sending items abroad with Royal Mail have been warned there is No End in sight to delivery disruption after The Firm was hit by a " cyber incident" on Thursday.
The Firm is still unable to send letters and parcels overseas and says it is " working hard" to fix the issue.
There are also minor delays to post coming into the UK, but domestic deliveries are unaffected.
Royal Mail apologised again and vowed to update people as soon as possible.
It said that some customers who had posted items abroad even before the " incident" might see delays.
The Company is calling it a " cyber-incident" rather than a cyber attack because it does Not Yet know what has caused The Problem , The Bbc has been told.
A National Crime Agency spokesperson said it was " aware of an incident impacting Royal Mail " and was working alongside The National Cyber Security Centre - which is part of the UK's cyber intelligence agency Gchq - to understand its impact.
The back office system that has been affected is used by Royal Mail to prepare mail for despatch abroad, and to track and trace overseas items.
It is in use at six sites, including Royal Mail 's huge Heathrow distribution Centre in Slough, as well as its Bristol site - neither of which have any mail moving through them.
In the year to March, Royal Mail sent 152 million parcels abroad which equates to about 200,000 items A Day .
However, that was a small fraction of The Number of parcels it sent domestically.
Ciaran Martin , a professor at the University of Oxford and former chief of The National Cyber Security Centre , told The Bbc he believed the " incident" was down to " malicious activity".
He suggested, based on The Limited information about the case So Far , that it was likely to be criminal extortion or a " ransomware" attack.
" You're Locked Out of The System and there will be a demand, probably in Broken English from criminal abroad, to pay a lot of money in cryptocurrency for what is called a decrypt key To Let you back in to The System , " he told the Today programme.
Whatever has happened, a full recovery is likely to take some time, Prof Martin added.
Royal Mail has faced A Number of hurdles in recent months, including mounting losses as people send fewer letters and delivery delays as postal workers strike over pay and conditions.
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