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
Mercenary Spyware
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 …
Hi-Tech Peeping Tom
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 …
Pegasus abuse
The Canadian based Citizen Lab has released a report about the use of the Pegasus spyware in Mexico: New Pegasus Spyware Abuses Identified in Mexico – The Citizen Lab Each time one of these well researched reports is published it seems to make the claims that these cyber weapon producing …
Cold War spying is a long way from today’s cyber-espionage weapons but they both successfully stole information.
This article comes via Bruce Schneier, and fits nicely into the Weekend Project – it is about security and has some connections to the posts we run here at Smart Thinking. Both Clive and I have attended Bruce Schneier speaking events, and through Clive’s links with Edinburgh Napier University have …
