Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans This week’s news about the CIA having the ability to access cell phones didn’t come as a surprise to some. However, there are also those that are concerned about whether or not withholding that information from tech companies is safe ……
How spy tech firms let governments see everything on a smartphone
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans As Engadget notes, however, a spokesperson for the Israeli company states that the services of the NSO Group are only available to authorized government bodies. For the past six years, the NSO Group’s main product, a tracking system called Pegasus, The…
NSO Group Among Several Digital Spy Companies For Hire: The Biggest Customers Are Governments And Law Enforcement Agencies
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The NSO Group, the company behind the hack that forced Apple to release emergency iOS and Mac OS X updates to patch up the vulnerabilities, is just one of several firms that sell digital spying services, with governments and law The…
Israeli spyware firm NSO Group charges governments $650,000 to hack 10 iPhones
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans We read news and outrage related to the government snooping on its citizens’ computers and smartphones to access their data without their authorization through backdoor, every now and then. And, to encash the opportunity, there are several digital surveillance firms The…
Hacker Group For Hire Can Access Any Phone For $1.1M, Services Offered To Governments
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans For those who have been following the news recently, the debacle involving an Israeli company of hackers called NSO Group breaking into iPhones might sound familiar. Now, reports regarding how much the group charges anyone who is interested in hacking The…
Teenager who hacked governments worldwide is spared jail
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Ateenage computer hacker who shutdown government networks across the world and sent bomb threats to US airlines from his bedroom, has walked free from court. The 16-year-old from Plympton in Devon, began hacking the sites of organisations and governments he disagreed…
Governments Turn to Commercial Spyware to Intimidate Dissidents
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans In the last five years, Ahmed Mansoor, a human rights activist in the United Arab Emirates, has been jailed and fired from his job, along with having his passport confiscated, his car stolen, his email hacked, his location tracked and his…
Cyber Security Takes Centre Stage in UK Government’s Strategy
Your ads will be inserted here byEasy Plugin for AdSense.Please go to the plugin admin page toPaste your ad code OR Suppress this ad slot. The UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport recently released a statement on cyber security, in which it urged businesses to take better care to…
The Capability: Government’s national facial recognition plan raises privacy concerns
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The Government is planning to spend $18.5 million setting up the National Facial Biometric Matching Capability, known as The Capability. A Government-commissioned assessment has warned it could collect more information than necessary and there is a risk it will not do…
Twitter says governments are hacking its users – are you affected?
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Twitter is now warning users if their accounts are being targeted by government hacking attempts. Several users have reported receiving notices from Twitter revealing attacks on their accounts, as reported by the Telegraph. According to the report, a number of the…