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Spyware Maker NSO Ordered to Pay WhatsApp $168 Million for 2019 Hack
Meta, which owns WhatsApp, became the first company to sue and win against NSO Group, the maker of the notorious Pegasus spyware, when a U.S. ruled in December that the vendor hacked ...
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21 Countries Sign Onto Voluntary Pact to Stem the Proliferation of Spyware
Twenty-one countries signed onto the Pall Mall Process, an effort a year in the making that was created to develop a framework nations could adopt to address the proliferation and malicious use ...
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Apple Seeks to Drop Its Lawsuit Against Spyware Maker NSO
Apple wants its three-year-old lawsuit against spyware maker NSO to be dismissed, citing the surveillance software maker's declining dominance of the expanding market and fears that its own threat intelligence could be ...
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Citizen Lab vs. NSO Group, Apple AI and Privacy
Tom Eston | | AI, Apple, Apple AI, Apple Intelligence, canada, Citizen Lab, court, Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, Digital Privacy, Episodes, Human Rights, Information Security, Infosec, lawsuit, NSO Group, Pegasus, Podcast, Podcasts, Privacy, security, spyware, technology, Weekly Edition
In episode 334, hosts Tom Eston, Scott Wright, and Kevin Johnson discuss two major topics. First, they explore the ongoing legal battle between Citizen Lab and the Israeli spyware company NSO Group ...

Apple Warns of ‘Mercenary Spyware Attacks’ on iPhone Users
Apple reportedly is alerting iPhone users in 92 countries that they may have been the targets of attacks using “mercenary spyware,” a term that the company is now using in such alerts ...
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NSO Group and Its ‘MMS Fingerprint’ Attack
Buried among the piles of legal documents that form WhatsApp’s five-year-old lawsuit against NSO Group is a line in a contract that exposes a mobile network attack dubbed “MMS Fingerprint,” a tactic ...
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US Uses Visa Restrictions in Struggle Against Spyware
The United States will impose visa restrictions on foreign individuals who have been involving the misuse of spyware, the latest effort by the Biden Administration to address the dangers of the commercial ...
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‘BLASTPASS’ iPhone Exploit — Apple Asleep at the Switch
Richi Jennings | | Apple, BLASTPASS, Citizen Lab, FaceTime, FaceTime bug, imessage, ios, iPhone, NSO, NSO Group, Pegasus, Pegasus Spyware, Privacy, SB Blogwatch
Zero click, zero day, zero clue: Yet another iOS zero-day lets NSO’s Pegasus “mercenary spyware” cause chaos ...
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The Ethics of Selling Hacker Tools
With Indiana Jones about to enter the space race in the Dial of Destiny, I am reminded of the great Tom Lehrer’s 1965 song about former Nazi scientist Dr. Wernher von Braun’s ...
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Hacking Google: Lessons From the Security Team, Part One
Cybersecurity is a battle that all organizations must fight, and there is really no point in doing it alone. Sharing information – the latest attack vectors, shifts in tactics, new-found defenses – ...
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