The SolarWinds attack, where the threat actors got inside SolarWinds’ systems and added their malicious code to a legitimate software update, so having SolarWinds distribute this malware to many of its high and low profile customers around the world, seems a long time ago now. But at least in this …
Spyware across Europe
Here is a great weekend read, which I found very interesting: It is an excellent article by Morgan Meaker at Wired UK, examining the apparent plague of spyware, being discovered on the smartphones of activists, journalists and politicians, across Europe Spyware Scandals Are Ripping Through Europe | WIRED UK All …
Mercenary Spyware
“Spyware is huge threat to global human rights and democracy, expert warnsCybersecurity expert Ron Deibert to testify to Canadian MPs about troubling spread of invasive surveillance tools” Leyland Cecco – The Guardian Spyware is huge threat to global human rights and democracy, expert warns | Canada | The Guardian
Advice from the National Cyber Security Centre and the UK Government – actions to take when the cybersecurity risk is high (Russia Ukraine Conflict) – UPDATED 2 May 2023
This post was originally made on 2 March 2022. It will be updated as the Russian Ukraine Conflict develops and will highlight the cyber security issues facing organisations and individuals at this time. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is advising all UK organisations to review and improve their cyber …
Is there censorship on the web?
Of course there is, and in some surprising places. Here is a report by the The Citizen Lab, examining how Microsoft Bing censors autosuggestions on politically sensitive Chinese names and other topics. This is not only applied in China, as we would expect, but in other regions too! Bada Bing, …
Would you like to go large on the tracking with that coffee? UPDATED
This post was first made on 6 June 2022 Updated 2 August 2022 A coffee and a doughnut as compensation At least this time it appears the people will be getting compensation: Tim Hortons offer free coffee, donut to settle privacy claim • The Register Original Post: Tim Hortons is …
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With a title that includes “Bond Villains” you cannot possibly miss reading this…
A few weeks ago I ran a post that pointed at an excellent article in the New Yorker magazine looking inside the world of the NSO Group the developers of Pegasus. Pegasus is a commercially available spyware cyber-weapon. Inside a commercial spyware company – Smart Thinking Solutions The Canadian research …
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