Following the story this week that No. 10 Downing Street and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office were infected with the Pegasus spyware, Bruce Schneier put me onto this article about the NSO Group and Pegasus spyware. It provides some amazing background into the way the software has developed and how it got the reputation it has today.
How Democracies Spy on Their Citizens | The New Yorker
It is a long read – so get yourself your beverage of choice and see how governments and law enforcement can buy spyware.
Clive Catton MSc (Cyber Security) – by-line and other articles