Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Here is a deep dive on the operation of the Predator Android malware by Bill Toulas of Bleeping Computer from research by Cisco Talos and the Citizen Lab. Predator: Looking under the hood of Intellexa’s Android spyware (bleepingcomputer.com) Predator is commercially available malware – only sold to governments or authorised …
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Android apps need careful management We have an HP SoHo printer in the office, that the team use when they are here. The iPhone users use AirPrint the Android users use an approved app, as we have a BYOD policy in place for the all devices. This is especially important …
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The multiple suppliers of commercial spyware (nearly) all claim to only sell their products to national governments or authorised law enforcement agencies – yet the use of these products by other agencies seems widespread. Then there is who the national government is! The Canadian based research group Citizen Lab have …
I have written a number of articles about the commercial spyware Pegasus. It has attracted the the interest of the European Parliament who are investigating the use of Pegasus around the world. Now MEPs are being warned about disinformation campaigns that are being pout out there to derail their investigation: …
The US Government has expressed a concern that data hungry autonomous cars – particularly those manufactured in China – may be sending back to their home servers more than just driving data: Autonomous Vehicles Join the List of US National Security Threats | WIRED UK
Here is a an interesting article from The Record by Andrea Peterson looking at the impact of “Off-the-shelf spyware” such as Pegasus from the Israeli NSO Group in democratic countries – particularly focusing on its use in Mexico and a recent Citizen Lab report. Democracies are having a reckoning with …
Readily available commercial drones have been adapted to be spy-drones: Wi-Fi spy drones used to snoop on financial firm • The Register This type of attack had been a popular discussion and maker session at various hacking events over the past few years, but now it is happening in the …
