Catch up with what the zero-day threat is, that your organisation is facing here: As a zero-day flaw is such a useful way in for threat actors to a system, it is no surprise that there is monetary value for zero-day vulnerabilities between hackers, for hacking, “legitimate” software who produce …
Where to start in 2024?
Happy New Year. I am going to start the cyber news for 2024 with a story that broke between Christmas and the New Year – Apple iPhone hardware vulnerabilities. I am a great supporter of the Apple iPhone and the associated “walled garden” App store as a good cyber security …
Disinformation to help Pegasus
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: …
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 …
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 – #BeCyberSmart
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 …
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 …