Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
This is a follow-up to last week’s story: New commercial spyware for phones – Smart Thinking Solutions This is Google describing how they countered the Hermit smartphone malware and discusses their Project Zero for countering zero-day threats. Spyware vendor targets users in Italy and Kazakhstan (blog.google) Your best defence against …
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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 …
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 …
The Pegasus commercial spyware gets a lot of press, but there are other companies out there selling malware and spyware to law enforcement agencies and governments. Cytrox is one and their product is called Predator. Predator spyware uses in Chrome, Android zero-day exploits • The Register Here is a report …
Here is another article looking at the impact of the NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. India’s battle with Pegasus tells a bigger tale of tech laws • The Register Commercial spyware – buy it (if you are an approved government or law enforcement agency) and start spying. The allegations are that …
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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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 …
