Spyware and Pegasus: How Democracies Spy on Their Citizens
Writing for the New Yorker, Ronan Farrow reports on Pegasus, "a spyware technology designed by NSO Group, an Israeli firm, which can extract the contents of a phone, giving access to its texts and photographs, or activate its camera and microphone to.....»»
Israeli police use NSO Group"s Pegasus to spy on citizens without a warrant
Israeli police have reportedly used Pegasus spyware to surveil citizens in the country without any oversight, a claim that flies in the face of the NSO Group saying that its tools would not be used domestically.Pegasus spyware used on Israeli citizen.....»»
Israeli Citizens Targeted By Police Using Pegasus Spyware, Report Claims
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The Israeli police allegedly conducted warrantless phone intercepts of Israeli citizens, including politicians and activists, using the NSO group's controversial Pegasus spyware, according to an.....»»
EU Orders Europol To Delete Data on Citizens Who Have Not Committed Crimes
Europol, the law enforcement agency of the European Union (EU), has been ordered to delete its massive database of information on EU citizens that it collected in recent years if the agency did not link subjects to any ongoing criminal activity. From.....»»
Ruling Party Figures Say Poland Has Pegasus Spyware
Senior figures in the Polish government indicated on Friday that the country had bought sophisticated spyware developed by the Israel-based NSO Group, but denied that it had been used against political opponents. Reuters reports: Reports from the Ass.....»»
Euro banknote artist fears redesign could revive rivalries
Twenty years after arriving in Europeans' wallets, euro banknotes will get a new look with help from the public, a process officials hope will make citizens feel closer to the single currency......»»
China Says SpaceX Satellites Nearly Collided With Its Space Station
Chinese citizens lashed out online against billionaire Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Monday after China complained that its space station was forced to take evasive action to avoid collision with satellites launched by Musk's Starlink program. CN.....»»
Personal and Salary Data for 637,138 Albanian Citizens Leaks Online
The Albanian government has confirmed and apologized this week for a data leak that exposed the personal and salary-related information for 637,138 citizens, more than 22% of the country's entire population. From a report: Details such as names, ID c.....»»
The secret Uganda deal that has brought NSO to the brink of collapse
Things changed once US diplomats in Uganda got hacked by Pegasus. Enlarge / A man walks by the building entrance of Israeli cyber company NSO Group at one of its branches in the Arava Desert on November 11, 2021, in Sapir, Israel. (cre.....»»
French privacy authority demands Clearview AI flush facial recognition data gathered within its borders
On Thursday, France's privacy watchdog, the Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL), demanded that Clearview AI delete all data it has on French citizens. The regulator alleges that the company's data scraping practices violate.....»»
Meta cracks down on mysterious companies spying on Facebook users
The spyware tools were only used to target criminals, the companies claim......»»
Google Says NSO Pegasus Zero-Click "Most Technically Sophisticated Exploit Ever Seen"
wiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek: Security researchers at Google's Project Zero have picked apart one of the most notorious in-the-wild iPhone exploits and found a never-before-seen hacking roadmap that included a PDF file pretending to b.....»»
US Lawmakers Call For Sanctions Against Israel"s NSO, Spyware Firms
A group of U.S. lawmakers is asking the Treasury Department and State Department to sanction Israeli spyware firm NSO Group and three other foreign surveillance companies they say helped authoritarian governments commit human rights abuses. From a re.....»»
Spyware Firm NSO Mulls Shutdown of Pegasus Unit, Sale of Company
NSO Group, the scandal-plagued spyware company that's in danger of defaulting on its debts, is exploring options that include shutting its controversial Pegasus unit and selling the entire company, Bloomberg News reported Monday, citing people famili.....»»
What is happening to our drying river networks? A new app helps scientists find out
A new app is giving citizens the power to help scientists understand drying river networks. Developed by the EU-funded DRYvER project, the DRYRivERS app enables citizens to map and report drying cases in rivers and streams......»»
New German Government Coalition Promises Not To Buy Exploits
The three political parties set to form the new German government have agreed to stop buying zero-day vulnerabilities and limit the government's future use of monitoring software (spyware). From a report: The Green Party, the Social Democratic Party.....»»
Microsoft To Change Hiring Process After DOJ Finds Immigration-related Discrimination
The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday it reached a settlement with Microsoft resolving allegations that the company discriminated against non-U.S. citizens in its hiring process. From a report: Microsoft asked job applicants for unnecessary imm.....»»
Why it"s time to make ecocide a crime, for the sake of its victims
In November, the world's first global citizens' assembly—made up of 100 people chosen by lottery from around the world—declared its recommended responses to the climate crisis at the UN climate conference COP26. Among these recommendations was th.....»»
Pegasus spyware found on nine US diplomatic phones
Reuters' sources indicated that US officials, either based in Uganda or working on issues concerning Uganda, received warnings from Apple that their iPhones were being targeted with spyware from Israel-based NSO over the last several months......»»
iPhones of US diplomats hacked using “0-click” exploits from embattled NSO
NSO's stealthy Pegasus malware gives full remote access to infected devices. Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The iPhones of nine US State Department officials were infected by powerful and stealthy malware developed by NSO Grou.....»»
US State Department iPhones Hacked With Israeli Company Spyware
Apple's iPhones of at least nine U.S. State Department employees were hacked by an unknown assailant using sophisticated spyware developed by the Israel-based NSO Group, Reuters reported Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. From the report.....»»