spyware
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Salah Hammouri sues NSO Group
Israeli spyware firm NSO Group faces a number of lawsuits from tech giants and others targeted with its malware. Salah Hammouri, an acclaimed Palestinian-French human rights defender, and two human rights groups have filed a criminal complaint against the notorious Israeli spyware company NSO Group. Continue reading
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Pegasus spyware row is really about who controls cyber weapons
The Israeli spy software firm NSO Group has rarely been out of the headlines over the past year. Its spyware tool Pegasus worms its way into phones, accessing data and turning on the microphone and camera to act as round-the-clock surveillance equipment. Authoritarian states have reportedly bought the cyber weapon from NSO and put it to nefarious… Continue reading
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Politicians, Journalists, HR Activists And Others Spied Upon Using Pegasus Spyware
NSO Group, a private Israeli firm that sells surveillance technology to governments worldwide, insists that its Pegasus spyware is used only to “investigate terrorism and crime.” Leaked data, however, reveals that the company’s hacking tool “has been used to facilitate human rights violations around the world on a massive scale.” Continue reading
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WhatsApp fixes Israeli spyware breach By Ali Abunimah
WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, released the update to fix a critical vulnerability that allowed Israeli spyware to be installed on a user’s smartphone simply by ringing it up. Continue reading
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WhatsApp claims spyware attack has ‘all hallmarks’ of Israeli company that aides govt surveillance
A WhatsApp spyware attack that targeted human rights activists has clear links to a company known to help governments snoop, the messaging app firm said in a statement. Israeli firm NSO is accused of being behind the exploit. Continue reading
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Israel’s espionage crimes in Gaza and abroad By Maureen Clare Murphy
Amnesty International is demanding that Israel’s defense ministry revoke the export license from a company whose spyware has been used in “a series of egregious human rights violations.” Continue reading
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UK spyware used against Bahraini activists – court witness
UK spy technology was used against British citizen in Bahrain, new evidence filed in a UK high court has claimed. Activists are calling for a judicial review of the UK’s failure to hold firms accountable for sales of spy software to repressive regimes. Continue reading
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Wikileaks / Bradley Manning Newslinks 4 May 2013
4 May 2013 — williambowles.info Government-operated spyware on the rise around the world – report RT More and more regimes across the world are using Western-made ‘lawful intercept’ software to spy on their own citizens, a brand new report has revealed. Citizen Lab, a digital research unit at the University of Toronto, says that Continue reading
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