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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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NSO Group Fires CEO — and 100 Staff — in Spyware ‘Streamlining’

NSO Group Fires CEO — and 100 Staff — in Spyware ‘Streamlining’

NSO, notorious producer of the Pegasus nation-state spyware, is struggling. So it’s dumped its CEO, Shalev Hulio, and around 100 employees ...
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US Gov't Flip-Flops on NSO Group Sale to L3Harris

US Gov’t Flip-Flops on NSO Group Sale to L3Harris

NSO Group, notorious makers of the notorious Pegasus spyware, has been in acquisition talks with huge defense contractor L3Harris ...
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Spanish Govt. Hacked by NSO Pegasus Spyware (or was it?)

Spanish Govt. Hacked by NSO Pegasus Spyware (or was it?)

The prime minister and the defense minister of Spain were infected with Pegasus. The notorious spyware, sold by NSO Group “only to governments,” caused large amounts of data to be exfiltrated ...
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Life360 Sells Location Data, NSO Group Spyware Hacks Government Employees, Homecoming Queen Contest

Life360 Selling Location Data, NSO Group Spyware Hacks Government Employees, Homecoming Queen Contest Hacked

Life360, a popular family safety app used by 33 million people worldwide, is selling location data to a dozen data brokers, phones of 11 U.S. State Department employees were hacked with spyware ...
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Apple Warns of Further Compromises by Israel’s NSO Group

The NSO Group, known for their suite of exploitation tools, has once again found itself at the center of unwanted attention when Apple revealed that it had warned a number of individuals, ...
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Facebook Dumps Face Recognition, Social Engineering Bots, US Sanctions NSO Group

Facebook Dumps Face Recognition, Social Engineering Bots, US Sanctions NSO Group

Facebook shuts down their face recognition system and deletes more than a billion facial recognition templates, how phone bots are being used to trick victims into giving up their multi-factor authentication codes, ...