Here is another report from the well respected Citizen Lab about the use/misuse, sale/mis-sale of the spyware Pegasus by the Israeli NSO Group. GeckoSpy: Pegasus Spyware Used Against Thailand’s Pro-Democracy Movement – The Citizen Lab The sale of these types of cyber weapons on the open market, is enabling governments …
New commercial spyware for phones
Google researchers are reporting on spyware that is active on both Apple and Android smartphones – the spyware is called Hermit and Google has taken steps to protect Android users. The software developed and marketed by RCS Lab, based in Milan, will exfiltrate messages ,contacts and password information from targeted …
Pegasus Spyware – if you are a Prime Minister – anywhere – then watch out… UPDATED 27 May 2022
This post was originally published on 3 May 2022 Update 27 May 2022 Following the hacking of Spanish governmental phones, Spain’s prime minister Pedro Sánchez, will be bringing forward new legislation to regulate and oversee the nation’s spy agencies: Spain’s PM vows to reform intelligence services following phone hacking scandal …
Inside a commercial spyware company
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 …
Why the Prime Minister needs to be told to “pay close attention” to cybersecurity
I know the job of Prime Minister is a demanding one, add to that Brexit, a difficult economy, keeping up with all the issues about COVID-19, Ukraine, etc. but basic security and with that basic cybersecurity is something that naturally should be a key part of how he conducts himself. …
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