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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TikTok is still in the news – the fact that TikTok’s owners, ByteDance, are a Chinese based company subject to the Chinese laws that gives the government far reaching rights to access any company’s data is the issue. Here is the BBC’s take on the story: TikTok: Why do countries …
It has emerged, during a session of the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy (JCNSS), that a government minister instructed Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council to keep secret the extent of a ransomware attack in January 2020. This pressure for secrecy caused problems for the council when it come …
The attacks being warned about by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) do not impact huge numbers of us, as they are mainly targeted at journalists and politicians. But the NCSC are taking the opportunity to remind everyone that they need to have effective cyber security plans and tools to …
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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: …
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 …
