NZ spy agency suffers outage, backup also fails

New Zealand’s signals intelligence and networks protection agency suffered potential embarrassment yesterday after its website went down for two hours, and its backup arrangements failed as well.

The Government Communications Security Bureau or GCSB is responsible for eavesdropping on communications in the Pacific and New Zealand as part of the “Five Eyes” or AUSCANNZUKUS agreement, and cooperates with the UK’s General Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and the National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States.