There are reports of the commercial spyware, Pegasus, being targeted at European Commission officials last year, by as yet unidentified hackers. European officials reportedly targeted by NSO spyware • The Register Pegasus is commercially available from the Israeli company NSO Group, to “approved” organisations.
Apple AirTags – used for stalking
These little devices are really useful to the law abiding – then there are the criminals: Police Records Show Women Are Being Stalked With Apple AirTags Across the Country (vice.com) The report is from the US, but if it happens over there, then it is also happening here.
The End to End Encryption debate is not over
End to End Encryption (E2EE) is the ability for you, the law abiding citizen, to keep your communications secret and is something many governments, including the UK government is against! I have written about this a lot: Bad laws will only give a political sticky plaster to the technologically uninformed …
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A couple of interesting privacy stories
Respecting privacy is a good start to an effective security policy – it is why thinking about clarifying and classifying your data is one of the first things I cover in my Cyber Security Master Class. Here are a couple of privacy articles I thought were interesting: Europe Is Building …
“…smartphones aren’t really about making our lives easier; they’re about allowing private companies to profit from areas of our lives that were previously closed to them.” Max Fletcher, The Guardian
The article from which I have taken the quote is further down the page – but please read the rest of the article first, it is relevant. I ran a post about a talk given by Matt Brittin, from Google, about their vision of privacy by design: Privacy by Design …
Misuse of an Apple Watch by a stalker
There has been a lot talk about the misuse of Apple AirTags to stalk people: AirTags articles at Smart Thinking Solutions The small size of the AirTags and the functionality built into them make them open to this type of abuse by criminals. Here is a case where an abuser …
Privacy by Design – A Google point of view
One of the ideas I explored in my MSc dissertation was the concept and implementation of “privacy by design” when writing software or in the case of my research when creating documents in an organisation. I read a lot stuff written by Ann Cavoukian, including her paper “Privacy by design: …
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