{"id":271246,"date":"2026-06-12T08:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/code-girls-the-secret-heroes-of-world-war-ii\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T10:51:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:51:02","slug":"code-girls-the-secret-heroes-of-world-war-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/code-girls-the-secret-heroes-of-world-war-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Code Girls: The Secret Heroes Of World War II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cybersecurityventures.com\/code-girls-the-secret-heroes-of-world-war-ii\/\">Code Girls: The Secret Heroes Of World War II<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cybersecurityventures.com\/code-girls-the-secret-heroes-of-world-war-ii\/\">https:\/\/cybersecurityventures.com\/code-girls-the-secret-heroes-of-world-war-ii\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-12 08:43:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"cybersecurityventures.com\">cybersecurityventures.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 itemprop=\"name\" class=\"entry_title\"><span itemprop=\"dateCreated\" class=\"date entry_date updated\">12 Jun<\/span> Code Girls: The Secret Heroes Of World War II<\/h2>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"time\">Posted at 08:34h<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tin Blogs\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"post_author\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tby\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTaylor Fox<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<h6>This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine<\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sausalito, Calif. \u2013 Jun. 12, 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Watch the YouTube Short<\/span><\/p>\n<p>During World War II, some of America\u2019s most powerful weapons weren\u2019t bombs or guns. They were women sitting in secret rooms breaking enemy codes, explains Taylor Fox, senior social media manager at Cybercrime Magazine, in\u00a0a new YouTube Short.<\/p>\n<p>More than 10,000 women, later called the \u2018Code Girls,\u2019 worked for the U.S. military decoding German and Japanese messages. Nobody could know what they were doing, and if they talked about their work, it was considered treason.<\/p>\n<p>The military recruited women who were good at math, languages, and puzzles. A lot of them were college students and teachers. They worked in hidden offices around Washington D.C., running massive codebreaking machines and intercepting enemy radio signals all day and night.<\/p>\n<p>By 1945, women made up around 70 percent of the Army\u2019s codebreaking staff.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Code Girls: The Secret Heroes of WWII\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sC3TZvZ_QPs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One of their biggest successes was helping crack Japan\u2019s secret \u2018Purple\u2019 cipher. That intelligence helped the U.S. win the Battle of Midway and completely changed the war in the Pacific. The Code Girls also intercepted thousands of Japanese naval messages every month, helping Allied forces sink enemy supply ships before they reached the battlefield.<\/p>\n<p>Before D-Day, they even helped spread fake radio traffic to confuse Germany about where the invasion would happen. The work of these women helped build the foundation for modern cybersecurity, cryptography, and intelligence agencies.<\/p>\n<p>After the war, the Army and Navy\u2019s secret codebreaking operations were merged into what eventually became the NSA. But once soldiers came home, a lot of these&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cybersecurityventures.com\/code-girls-the-secret-heroes-of-world-war-ii\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Code Girls: The Secret Heroes Of World War II https:\/\/cybersecurityventures.com\/code-girls-the-secret-heroes-of-world-war-ii\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-12 08:43:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":271247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cybersecurityventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/photo21.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271248,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271246\/revisions\/271248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}